Benford's Law
The count of a thing can end sooner than later, eh?
Number of counts:
100
1,000
10,000
Chance of each count stopping:
1 in
10
100
1,000
10,000
Leading
Digit
Leading
Digit
Tally
Leading
Digit
Percent
Documented
Huge Dataset
Percent
*
1
368
36.8%
30.1%
2
146
14.6%
17.6%
3
100
10%
12.5%
4
93
9.3%
9.7%
5
70
7%
7.9%
6
67
6.7%
6.7%
7
56
5.6%
5.8%
8
46
4.6%
5.1%
9
54
5.4%
4.6%
Classic ASP vbscript source code
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