- Benford's Law and Google - Article discussing how search engines could make use of Benford's law to reveal anomalies.
- Benford's Law and Zipf's Law. - With the view to the eerie but uniform distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, it comes as a great surprise that, if the numbers under investigation are not entirely random but somehow socially or naturally related, the distribution of the first digit is not uniform.
- BenfordWiz - Software which produces and analyses Benford Sets. Hexagonal and Octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets.
- Fun and Fraud Detection with Benford's Law - Explains the law, includes a video demonstration and some reader responses.
- Wikipedia: Benford's Law - Encyclopedia article on this law, its history, explanations and applications.
Media publications
- Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No.1 - Dr.Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results. (Published 1998-08-04 00:00:00)
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