Benford's law and physical constants: The distribution of initial digits

John Burke and Eric Kincanon Citation: American Journal of Physics 59, 952 (1991); doi: 10.1119/1.16838 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16838 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/59/10?ver=pdfcov Published by the American Association of Physics Teachers Articles you may be interested in Do dynamical systems follow Benford’s law? Chaos 10, 331 (2000); 10.1063/1.166498 The first digit distribution law Am. J. Phys. 55, 584 (1987); 10.1119/1.15088 A constant force generator for the demonstration of Newton’s second law Am. J. Phys. 51, 344 (1983); 10.1119/1.13245 A critical review of Henry’s law constants for chemicals of environmental interest J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 10, 1175 (1981); 10.1063/1.555654 Laser‐initiated chemical reactions: Cl+H2S→HCl+HS: Rate constant, product energy distribution, and directdetection of a chain mechanism J. Chem. Phys. 69, 839 (1978); 10.1063/1.436599