>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).
Yes. Though they were talking about the exponents...
Here are the percentages for the first 3000 powers of 2. The first collumn
is the percentage, the second is the difference from the predicted Benford
percentage. Weird, I would have thought that it wouldn't affect powers of
two...
.30110036678892964321 .00007037112494844799
.17639213071023674558 .00030087165455550349
.12470823607869289763 -.00023050052960705550
.09703234411470490163 .00012233110664848727
.07935978659553184394 .00017854054790701622
.06702234078026008669 .00007555114964688849
.05768589529843281093 -.00030605167925394399
.05168389463154384794 .00053137218416255899
.04534844948316105368 -.00040904107751407172
-Lucas Wiman
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