• ssboomman@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      From what I understand it works like this.

      Let’s say you have a series of numbers that represent real life data. In general the first number of all of these numbers will be a 1, 30% of the time.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks, that makes sense. I must be missing a link or article on my client otherwise I would’ve read it lol

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          1 year ago

          It applies to situations with more than one order of magnitude being counted, such as d20 rolls, 55% of which will start with a 1.

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            The “1” of the “1000” is the real life number. He didn’t pick “785” or “462”.