Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun benford's_law

1 sense of benford's law

Sense 1
Benford's law -- (a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers; "Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time")
       => law, law of nature -- (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics")