What is the last digit of your house number?

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Testing Benford’s law

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Sorry, but doesn’t Benford’s Law deal with leading digits? What am I missing?

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You are right. I just realized. However, I think this poll will be interesting too.

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If you change it to leading digit, it may work.

Though Benford’s law really works best if the numbers are over a wide range of magnitudes, and most addresses are going to be 4 digit, with some at 3 and 5, and few as 1 or 2.

That said, I have a 5 digit address that starts and ends with a 1.

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New poll

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Well, no, not just the first digits. There’s a Benford’s law for the first two digits (ie – probabilities of “11”, “12”, “13”, etc. as the first two digits follows the same general curve as for the first digit by itself), and for the first three, etc. But taken one at a time, the correlation pretty much vanishes quickly as you move away from the first digit

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Not only is the last digit of my current house number “1”, this has been the case for two other addresses I remember, with “0”, “5”, and “6” making one appearance each