In real-world data, numbers starting with 1 appear about 30% of the time — way more than 9 (which is under 5%).
Used to detect fraud in tax filings — fake numbers tend to have uniform first-digit distributions.
In real-world data, numbers starting with 1 appear about 30% of the time — way more than 9 (which is under 5%).
Used to detect fraud in tax filings — fake numbers tend to have uniform first-digit distributions.