[William Tell]

"Except these numbers aren't randomly pulled from a list, they count, and they count up. "

Just for clarification, I was talking about the last two digits not the first digit. A random sample taken from the range 0 to 999,999 will have around 90% six digit numbers. A Benford analysis for the least significant digits will be different than for the first digit.

[Svartalfiar]

Just for clarification, I was talking about the last two digits not the first digit. A random sample taken from the range 0 to 999,999 will have around 90% six digit numbers. A Benford analysis for the least significant digits will be different than for the first digit.

A Benford analysis is not used to look at the ending digits. It does extrapolate into digits beyond the first, but by the time you reach the 4th digit you're at a near-even 10% across the board: at that point '0' is hitting 10.0176% of the time, and '9' is at 9.9824%.