I'm impressed that Madoff was smart enough to mimic Benford distribution in his monthly returns (that's what the article led me to infer).

I actually made an r/math post about Benford's Law that I thought was pretty interesting, although it didn't get much attention or many comments (admittedly bad signs). Any peer review (or su-peer-ior review) is appreciated.

Here's a snippet: "...generation of the geometric layout for Benford first digits is a similar process to creating a Sierpinski Triangle by drawing a triangle, and randomly plotting midpoint dots between vertices and sides recursively. In the Benford case the plotted dots are instead individual numbers, which share a geometric connection (e.g. two galaxies colliding will on average be a doubling, so galaxy size should possess Benford distribution)."

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/gkj2i/benfords_law_exp...