[racket] a small programming exercise

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> [mailto:users-bounces at racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Chris Stephenson
> Sent: 15 October 2010 11:13
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> Subject: Re: [racket] a small programming exercise
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> Think about the decimal numbers in the range 1-200. How many 
> start with
> 1?- More than half. The range 1-1000 is an exception. But 

The exceptions are flat distributions of natural numbers in a range from 1
to a power of the base, right?
For example:
(test 1000000 (expt 5 5) 5) -> (250490 249654 249630 250226)
distribution of 1000000 natural numbers in the range 1 to (expt 5 5) and
base 5.
1000000/4=250000

> natural distributions are not uniform over a fixed range. 
> They are bell curves of one sort or another. If you have a 
> natural random distribution there will always be a skew 
> toward the smaller digits. It is quantified as Benford's law.
> 
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