I'm not sure what the law of leading digits is, but I read this as talking
only about base 10 numbers... so the leading digit 1 is compared to
leading digit 2, 3, 4, ..., 9. Right? So for numbers 2^n (in Base 10),
[or is it 2^p?] there are a lot more leading ones than one would "expect"
naievely (you would expect 1/9 to start with "1", I imagine).
Why this is, I have no idea... can someone explain?
---Chip
> > The law of leading digits predicts that, for decimal numbers,
> >log10(2) ~= 30.1% will have leading digit 1.
>
> Uh, won't they *ALL* have a leading digit of one? Anything with a leading
> digit of ZERO can be totally discounted....
>
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