Multiplication is just an extension of addtion which is a form of quantification - a more accurate name for this phenomenon would be the quantification effect rather than benford's law. - DK

Jun 2, 2021

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“One plausible explanation for the prevalence of Benford’s Law in the natural sciences is that such physical manifestations of the law are obtained via the cumulative effects of few or numerous multiplicative random factors, all of which leads to the Lognormal as the eventual distribution …” — Alex Kossovsky

Benford’s Law — A Simple Explanation

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Robert A. Gonsalves

Multiplication is just an extension of addtion which is a form of quantification - a more accurate name for this phenomenon would be the quantification effect rather than benford's law.

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