Benford's law (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 09
def a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers
def applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers
examples Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time
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Hypernym law, law of nature
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Hyponym law, law of nature

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