What Sequences obey Benford's Law ?

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

No 185, Working Papers from Department of Applied Mathematics, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

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).

Keywords: Benford's law; equidistributed sequences; ergodic endomorphisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2008-11
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