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
305
30.5%
30.1%
2
153
15.3%
17.6%
3
122
12.2%
12.5%
4
118
11.8%
9.7%
5
68
6.8%
7.9%
6
63
6.3%
6.7%
7
61
6.1%
5.8%
8
61
6.1%
5.1%
9
49
4.9%
4.6%
Classic ASP vbscript source code
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