Scientific American 221(6), pp. 109-120.
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8733 DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican1269-109
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: In numbers that appear in tables of constants, lists of street addresses and similar tabulations the first digit of the number is 1 almost three times more often than one would expect. Why?
Bibtex:
@article {,
AUTHOR = {Ralph A. Raimi},
TITLE = {The Peculiar Distribution of First Digits},
JOURNAL = {Scientific American},
YEAR = {1969},
VOLUME = {221},
NUMBER = {6},
PAGES = {109--120},
DOI = {10.1038/scientificamerican1269-109},
URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/24964397},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): General Interest