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%S 1,2,3,1,4,5,6,1,2,7,8,9,1,3,2,1,4,1,5,2,3,1,6,1,2,4,7,3,1,8,2,1,5,9,
%T 1,3,4,2,6,1,1,2,7,3,5,1,4,1,2,8,1,3,6,2,9,1,4,5,1,2,3,7,1,1,2,4,6,3,
%U 1,8,5,2,1,1,3,9,2,4,7,1,1,5,6,2,3,1,4,8,2,1,1,3,2,1,5,7,6,1,4,9,2,3,1,1,2
%N Distribution of first digit of mantissa following Benford's Law, using Sainte-Lague method to minimize chi-squared statistic.
%H J. Connelly, <a href="http://www.solent.ac.uk/socsci/jc/voting/glossary.html">Glossary of voting terms</a>
%H Sean A. Irvine, <a href="https://github.com/archmageirvine/joeis/blob/master/src/irvine/oeis/a055/A055439.java">Java program</a> (github)
%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BenfordsLaw.html">Benford's Law</a>
%H <a href="/index/Be#Benford">Index entries for sequences related to Benford's law</a>
%e a(50)=8 so that after 50 terms we have had 15 1's, 9 2's, 6 3's, 5 4's, 4 5's, 3 6's, 3 7's, 3 8's and 2 9's
%Y Cf. A055440, A055441, A055442.
%K nonn,base
%O 1,2
%A _Henry Bottomley_, May 17 2000