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Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation

Probability 2023-04-18 v1

Abstract

We make progress on a conjecture made by [DM], which states that the dd-dimensional frames of mm-dimensional boxes resulting from a fragmentation process satisfy Benford's law for all 1dm1 \leq d \leq m. We provide a sufficient condition for Benford's law to be satisfied, namely that the maximum product of dd sides is itself a Benford random variable. Motivated to produce an example of such a fragmentation process, we show that processes constructed from log-uniform proportion cuts satisfy the maximum criterion for d=1d=1.

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@article{arxiv.2304.08335,
  title  = {Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation},
  author = {Livia Betti and Irfan Durmić and Zoe McDonald and Jack B. Miller and Steven J. Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08335},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages, 3 figures, to be submitted to the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice