RE: The Prize #3

["Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tass@listserv.wwa.com 
> [mailto:owner-tass@listserv.wwa.com] On Behalf Of Fraser Farrell
> Sent: September 20, 2004 10:58 AM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Cc: Robert Creager
> 
> But I would expect the magnitude's second and subsequent 
> digits to follow 
> Benford's Law. Easy enough to check of course, using a 
> trivial change to your 
> SQL.

Really?  I wouldn't expect that at all.  What you're saying is that if I
sample the frequency of all the individual numbers that go into one number,
across the entire data space, it's won't be a random distribution?  That's a
little more complicated to do.  Might need a little Perl and more
computation time.

Does PI follow this out to whatever huge place it's been calculated to?

Cheers,
Rob