> Benford's Law tends to be most accurate when values are distributed across multiple orders of magnitude, especially if the process generating the numbers is described by a power law (which is common in nature).
If you're dealing with signed integers, you'll have an even more lopsided distribution in favor of 1 for both 8-bit and 32-bit numbers (assuming you don't count the negative sign). And of course, all of this is assuming base ten; you can make things even more uniform by using binary!
thank you for the good, concise, starter breakdown of why this is a feature of decimal math.