A055439 Distribution of first digit of mantissa following Benford's Law, using Sainte-Lague method to minimize chi-squared statistic.

1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 1, 5, 2, 3, 1, 6, 1, 2, 4, 7, 3, 1, 8, 2, 1, 5, 9, 1, 3, 4, 2, 6, 1, 1, 2, 7, 3, 5, 1, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 3, 6, 2, 9, 1, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 7, 1, 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 1, 8, 5, 2, 1, 1, 3, 9, 2, 4, 7, 1, 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, 1, 4, 8, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 5, 7, 6, 1, 4, 9, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2

Offset

1,2

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..105.

J. Connelly, Glossary of voting terms

Sean A. Irvine, Java program (github)

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Benford's Law

Index entries for sequences related to Benford's law

Example

a(50)=8 so that after 50 terms we have had 15 1's, 9 2's, 6 3's, 5 4's, 4 5's, 3 6's, 3 7's, 3 8's and 2 9's

Crossrefs

Cf. A055440, A055441, A055442.

Sequence in context: A055448 A055449 A055442 * A329849 A122005 A362506

Adjacent sequences: A055436 A055437 A055438 * A055440 A055441 A055442

Keyword

nonn,base

Author

Henry Bottomley, May 17 2000

Status

approved