American Journal of Physics 87 (10) pp. 787-790.
ISSN/ISBN: Not available at this time. DOI: 10.1119/1.5116005
Abstract: According to Benford’s first digit law, the frequency of appearance of the first digit d taken from various sets of data is log(1+1/d) where d=1, 2,…9. I present a thermodynamic derivation of this law that follows from the unbiased partitioning of a conserved quantity whose pieces may fragment and combine.
Bibtex:
@article {,
AUTHOR = {Don S.~Lemons},
TITLE = {Thermodynamics of Benford's first digit law},
JOURNAL = {American Journal of Physics},
YEAR = {2019},
VOLUME = {87},
NUMBER = {10},
PAGES = {787--790},
DOI = {10.1119/1.5116005},
URL = {https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5116005},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): Natural Sciences, Physics