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Title: Benford’s Law
Post by: farrokh747 on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:18
morning...

I watched an episode of "Connected" on Netflix - Episode 4, Digits - It spoke about Benfords Law, which predicts the frequency distribution of leading digits in any set of numerical data -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

I believe its used (apart from other fields) in fraud detection by the tax authorities.

there are several videos on YT on this... pretty fascinating stuff... i wonder if it's used in aviation in any way....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXjlR2OK1kM

cheers,

fc
Title: Re: Benford’s Law
Post by: cagarini on Sun, 23 Aug 2020 11:52
It's also used in my previous area of work / research - discrete maths and AI...

Big Data is one of the "practical" areas of use.

Thx for the links!