Benford’s Law in Astronomy

Journal of astrophysics and astronomy

Stefanos Leontsinis1 2¹  Theodoros Alexopoulos1¹ 

[1]Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, GR157 80, Athens, Greece.$$

关键词: Benford’s law;    Universe;    stars;    galaxies;    significant digit.;   

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学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: Indian Academy of Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Benford’s law predicts the occurrence of the 𝑛-th digit of numbers in datasets originating from various sources all over the world, ranging from financial data to atomic spectra. It is intriguing that although many features of Benford’s law have been proven, it is still not fully understood mathematically. In this paper we investigate the distances of galaxies and stars by comparing the first, second and third significant digit probabilities with Benford’s predictions. It is found that the distances of galaxies follow the first digit law reasonable well, and that the star distances agree very well with the first, second and third significant digit.

【 授权许可】

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