Re:How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?
by chriselles on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:33PM
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Interesting.
On first pass, Benford’s Law looks a lot like Zipf’s Law.
What differentiates Benford’s Law from Zipf’s Law?
Re:How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?
by pmiller2 on Monday September 14, 2020 @09:09PM
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law :
> It has been argued that Benford's law is a special bounded case of Zipf's law,[22] with the connection between these two laws being explained by their both originating from scale invariant functional relations from statistical physics and critical phenomena.[24] The ratios of probabilities in Benford's law are not constant. The leading digits of data satisfying Zipf's law with s = 1 satisfy Benford's law.
Re:How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?
by chriselles on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:42PM
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Thank you!
I’ll take some time to try and better understand your post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law