On the non-existence of a general Benford's law

DOI10.1016/J.MATHSOCSCI.2007.09.001zbMath1140.60003OpenAlexW2037963400MaRDI QIDQ2427203

Tamás Lolbert

Publication date: 8 May 2008

Published in: Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2007.09.001

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawlogarithmic distributionleading digit distributionmantissae

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Probabilistic measure theory (60A10) Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. (11K16)

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• The First Digit Problem
• Base-Invariance Implies Benford's Law

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