Re: Mersenne: re: Mersenne prime exponent binary representations and 1's frequency (incl M38)

[Luke Welsh]

At 11:55 AM 7/12/99 -0400, Chip Lynch wrote:
>I'm not sure what the law of leading digits is[......]

See "Benford's Law"

http://sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/6_27_98/mathland.htm
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibmaths.html#msds
http://www.treasure-troves.com/math/BenfordsLaw.html
http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath302.htm
http://www.256.com/~gray/info/benfords.html
http://web.cari.net/~ddbass/news0002.htm
http://www.askdrmath.com/problems/edwards8.6.98.html

De wet van Benford (has a photo of Benford)
http://htsa.ie.hva.nl/~pylgroms/or1/lesstof/verdelin/logaritm.htm
(So, 'wet' is Dutch for 'law'?  What is Dutch for 'wet' ?)

Peter, thank you for introducing a lot of us to Benford and his law.

--Luke

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