Benford's Law Calculator

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Benford's Law is a mathematical phenomenon which states that given a large data set, the numbers with the leading digit as 1 occurs about 30.1% of the time, leading digits with 2 will occur 17.6% of the time and each subsequent numeral will decrease in frequency. It has been used to detect fruad and has been shown that it applies to different data sets including electricity bills, stock prices, and population numbers.

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