Numbers

Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small.

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What numbers do you see? A new bistable perceptual phenomenon on symbolic numbers - EurekAlert

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