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Ep. 250 - The Bird Flips

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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What's the Probability of Numbers?

The probability of number shrinks as the numbers get higher and higher. Benford's law kind of falls out of most of these distributions. The density of numbers with leading digit one, actually, even if you go off to infinity, that density will hop around between 10%, up to one half.

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