{"666187":{"#nid":"666187","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Benford\u0027s law applications and earthquakes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt was anticipated more than a century ago that the distribution of real-world observations\u0026#39; first digits would not be uniform but would exhibit a trend where numbers with lower first digits (1,2,...) occur more frequently than those with higher first digits (...,8,9).\u0026nbsp;This phenomenon is known as Benford\u0026#39;s law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law. It was finally\u0026nbsp;proven in 1995 by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hill.math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETheodore P. Hill\u003C\/a\u003E, emeritus professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;This law has been found to apply to a wide range of datasets, from countries\u0026#39; populations to financial data, physical constants and earthquakes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-02-27 15:42:29","changed_gmt":"2023-03-01 15:37:31","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/opinion\/2023\/02\/811_345745.html","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"192230","name":"Theodore P. Hill"},{"id":"192231","name":"Benford\u0027s law"},{"id":"192232","name":"law of anomalous numbers"},{"id":"192233","name":"first-digit law"},{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}