Note on the Frequency of Use of the Different Digits in Natural Numbers

1881/01/01 by Simon Newcomb · 990 citations
Mathematics · #Arithmetic #Biology #Combinatorics #History and Theory of Mathematics #Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis #Mathematics #Natural (archaeology) #Natural number

paper · doi:10.2307/2369148

published in American Journal of Mathematics 4(1/4), 39 (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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