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Applying the ideas from Benford's law to these findings seem very promising to me as primes follow a lognormal distribution[1] and that is where we expect Benford's law to apply[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Multiplicative...




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