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Re:How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers? by ficklepickle on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:58AM (#24468171)
#2 reminds me of Benford's Law, which I recently learned about and find truly fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

Re:How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers? by chriselles on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:33PM (#24474156)
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 (#24476897)
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 (#24477679)
Thank you!

I’ll take some time to try and better understand your post.