Benford's law

by Dr Siddhartha Bhattacharya (TIFR, Mumbai)

Thursday 13 Jun 2013, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-69 (Colaba Campus)

ABSTRACT Benford's law describes the distribution of the first digit in many naturally occurring data sets and integer sequences. In this talk, we discuss this phenomenon and some of its applications.