Benford's law: A "sleeping beauty" sleeping in the dirty pages of logarithmic tables
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Tariq Ahmad MIR and Marcel AUSLOOS Accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Nuclear Research Laboratory, Astrophysical Sciences Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Srinagar-190 006, Jammu and Kashmir, India. a e-mail address: [email protected] 2 GRAPES∗ rue de la Belle Jardinière 483, B-4031, Angleur, Liège, Belgium b e-mail address: [email protected]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- JASIST
دوره 69 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2018