How to make fake data look meaningful

Re:How to make fake data look meaningful by Terr_ on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:40PM (#6771732)

To be more specific, it has to do with the nature of any positional-notation system, whether it is decimal, octal, hex, or even binary.

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Re:How to make fake data look meaningful by T-hawk on Friday November 22, 2013 @02:43PM (#6783249)

Wow, thinking about Benford's Law in binary is really interesting, thanks for this comment.

It's the most extreme expression of the concept. Every number in binary starts with 1. The only other possible leading digit would be a meaningless leading zero, so every number starts with 1. Benford's Law holds in the most extreme manner possible in binary notation, that numbers starting with 1 dominate the population over all others.

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