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What Sequences obey Benford's Law ?

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Marco Corazza () (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Venice)
Andrea Ellero () (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Venice)
Alberto Zorzi () (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Venice)

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Abstract

We propose a new necessary and sufficient condition to test whether a sequence is Benford (base-b) or not and apply this characterization to some kinds of sequences (re)obtaining some well known results, as the fact that the sequence of powers of 2 is Benford (base-10).

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Paper provided by Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Venice in its series Working Papers with number 185.

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Date of creation: Nov 2008
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Keywords: Benford's law; equidistributed sequences; ergodic endomorphisms;

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