I was surprised to see how close my results were to the Benford’s law.

A lot of digits appeared less frequently than expected according to the law while some appeared more frequently than expected.

The reason for these differences could be because my data ( number of deaths due to Covid) could be an average or a rounded number.

Benford’s Law can be used in:

Fraud detection: Spotting unusual patterns in financial records or tax filings.

Environmental science: Studying natural events, like the size of rivers or earthquakes.

Logarithms help explain why smaller numbers appear more often. The pattern in Benford’s Law follows a formula that involves logarithms, which show how numbers spread out over different sizes. The logarithmic scale helps us understand why smaller leading digits (like 1 or 2) show up more often than larger ones when numbers cover a wide range of values.