Benford’s law, Zipf’s law, and the Pareto distributionBenford’s law, Zipf’s law, and the Pareto distribution 3 July, 2009 in expository, math.PR, math.ST, non-technical | Tags: Benford's law, Pareto distribution, randomness, Zipf's law | by Terence Tao A remarkable phenomenon in probability theory is that of universality – that many seemingly unrelated probability distributions, which ostensibly involve large numbers of unknown parameters, can end up
