BENFORD'S LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Benford's law mean? 

• BENFORD'S LAW (noun)
  The noun BENFORD'S LAW has 1 sense:

1. a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers

  Familiarity information: BENFORD'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENFORD'S LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time

Hypernyms ("Benford's law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)