On 07/15/2013 12:42 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > don't stop being what they are after some arbitrary number of > significant figures - whether it be one, three, or any other.
At the fourth significant digit, 0 and 9 occur slightly (¿1:10,000?) more frequently than 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. For most practical purposes, the fourth digit can be treated as a uniformly random number. At the fifth, and subsequent digits, the numbers are randomly, and uniformly distributed. > If you want values that follow Benford's Law up to three digits, you can > easily take the true values from my suggested formula, truncate (or > round?) them after three digits, and add further random digits selected > from a uniform distribution. And my original post was asking what happened to the macro that automatically did that. jonathon -- LibreOffice in a Multi-Lingual Environment. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
