Re: [libreoffice-users] Benford's Law

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
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