Thursday, 10 May 2007

Strange Numbers... 11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2...


Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why from PhysOrg.com

Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in common: the Dow Jones index history, size of files stored on a PC, the length of the world’s rivers, the numbers in newspapers’ front page headlines, and many more.

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