Timeline for Are 0 and 1, respectively, the least and most used digits among primes?
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| Aug 18, 2023 at 22:54 | comment | added | Dan Piponi | There's already work like arxiv.org/abs/1603.03720 | |
| Aug 18, 2023 at 1:10 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | How about making charts like this where you do not count the first and last digits? | |
| Aug 17, 2023 at 18:13 | history | edited | Dan Piponi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2023 at 1:16 | comment | added | Dan Piponi | @GerryMyerson Agreed. Mentioning Benford's law was a bit of a red herring but I do expect to see more 1s at the start for the reason you mention. | |
| Aug 16, 2023 at 23:51 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | The millionth prime is $p=15,485,863$, so the primes between $10,000,000$ and $p$ are contributing a lot of ones. I'd be more impressed by a study of primes up to $9,999,999$. There might still be a slight bias in favor of $1$, since there are more primes between $1,000,000$ and $1,999,999$ than between, say, $9,000,000$ and $9,999,999$, but I don't think this counts as an instance of Benford. | |
| Aug 16, 2023 at 23:10 | history | edited | Dan Piponi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2023 at 21:49 | history | edited | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2023 at 21:06 | history | answered | Dan Piponi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |