BENFORD'S LAW

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers

Example:

Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Benford's law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

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