ABSTRACT
If we classify an extensive collection of numerical data expressed in decimal form according to the first significant digit, the nine resulting classes are not usually of the same size. The American astronomer Simon Newcomb was the first to write about this phenomenon in 1881. He observed that the pages in well- used tables of logarithms tend to get quite dirty in the front, whereas the last pages stay relatively clean.
F. Benford provided in 1938 for empirical evidence and the law (also known to Newcomb) p k = log 10 k + 1 k , https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203744369/d9858e60-9246-4876-bb34-38e3d28ecc5f/content/eq2238.tif"/>
1 ≤ A; ≤ 9, is named after him.
