The first digits of numbers in a collection of related multi-digit numbers (commonly cited examples are tables of logarithms, populations of towns, newspaper circulations) are not equally likely. Instead, the probability that the first digit is D is
Thus, in such collections, approximately 30% of numbers begin with the digit 1. See also Zipf’s law.
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