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Fabricated figures
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How the leading digits of honest numbers betray invented ones.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Simon Newcomb noticed in 1881 that the first pages of logarithm tables wore out faster than the last; Frank Benford checked 20,229 numbers from rivers to street addresses in 1938 and found the same law. In data spread over several orders of magnitude, the leading digit is d with probability">

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