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BENFORD'S LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers
Example:
Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Benford's law" is a kind of...):
law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)
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