[SunkenCiv]

Even pulsars follow Benford's law (Image: NASA)

Natural law?

[Raycpa]

God is one.

[paul in cape]

One IS the lonliest number.

[eclecticEel]

if you convert the units of the numbers in the set, from metres to yards

Well yes, picking units which are nearly equal to each other does help.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Do the percentages change if the number system is other than base 10? I presume they would have to.

[Nachoman]

Someone let me know if they figure out how to pick winning lottery numbers.

[GregoryFul]

It doesn’t seem to apply to the price of cars, or houses (in US $).

[GregoryFul]

Computer scientists have been using this odd phenomena for some time now. Just about all computer floating point packages assume that the first number is a one, and so just throw it away. Ha! The hidden 1.

[blindsangamon]

Here’s an even stranger one: In binary numbers, 100% of numbers start with one.

[Ready4Freddy]

The answer is 42.

[Padams]

Bookmark

[Yardstick]

This must explain why I always end up with ONE sock that doesn’t have a match. It’s just the universe seeking its normal state.

[The Comedian]

Numerogomy ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[JRios1968]

Dark Helmet: So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump....

[Gideon7]

The curves look a lot like inverse exponential functions, e^-kx + C.

[Southack]

Newscientist ran this article almost verbatim 10 years ago.

[Condor51]

and a number has just a 4.6 per cent chance of beginning with a 9

Oh yeah, tell that to the Beatles...

Number nine, Number nine, Number nine, Number nine ...

IMHO, John had waaaaay too much acid that day.

;-)