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- If you make a distribution of the first digit of prices in a webshop you will notice that 1 appears more frequently than other digits.
- If you convert the prices to another currency and redo the distribution, the most frequent first digit will still be 1!
So it's not a given that you can assume the properties of a random bit stream will hold for the calculation in the article.
(As an aside: this weird property explains why you need slightly fewer coins in a currency that has quarters than those with 20 cent coins)
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- If you make a distribution of the first digit of prices in a webshop you will notice that 1 appears more frequently than other digits.
- If you convert the prices to another currency and redo the distribution, the most frequent first digit will still be 1!
So it's not a given that you can assume the properties of a random bit stream will hold for the calculation in the article.
(As an aside: this weird property explains why you need slightly fewer coins in a currency that has quarters than those with 20 cent coins)