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Looks like a few of the patterns in his analysis has a tendency towards Benford's Law[1]

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

Technically it describes none of these. Benford's Law only describes collections of leading digits. The charts in the article are just exponential distributions.

Yeah. Reading a bit more into it, I think you're right.

The article says:

> Distributions that would not be expected to obey Benford's Law:

> ...

> Where numbers are influenced by human thought: e.g. prices set by psychological thresholds

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