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Your experiments show that when we pick numbers from a uniform distribution, each digit from 1 to 9 is equally likely to be the leading significant digit. This is perfectly fine. Numbers picked from a uniform distribution indeed do not obey Benford's law.


thanks for the analysis! I thought I must have made a mistake.




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