If you’re going to wager a bet on a set of coin tosses (or at least over who drives to get the Chinese takeout) you can stack the odds in your favour with some mathematical magic.
How can accountants, election inspectors, and academic reviewers know at a glance that your numbers are bunk? They use Benford’s Law, which suggests number distribution is less random than expected. Roughly 30 percent of numbers, for example, should start with 1.
