Author: Dr Wingnut
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Benfield’s Law
In a large set of data, the frequency of the occurrence of the first digit of the numbers in the set is not evenly distributed. The number 1 turns up as the first digit about 30% of the time, more often than any other.Dr. Benford derived a formula to explain this. If absolute certainty is…
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Poem or Prayer?
I ask you God for strength, I might achieve.I was made weak that I might learn to humbly obey.I asked for help that I might do greater thingsI was given infirmity, that I do better thingsI asked for riches, that I might be happyI was given poverty, that I might be wiseI asked for power,…
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Facts
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Mark TwainGod give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.Thomas H. Huxley