{"id":94,"date":"2005-08-25T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-08-25T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T12:34:36","slug":"a-further-five-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"A Further Five Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting another series of programmes on numbers. This week&#8217;s programme features <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benford%27s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Benford&#8217;s Law<\/a> which says that in naturally occurring data (so not random number tables) the number 1 appears as the first digit around 30% of the time, which is not what one would expect. It is used to detect forgeries.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the programme at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/science\/further5.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">A Further Five Numbers<\/a> and the rest of the series will look at <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/01ae4b2d8c269139fd8bf2f6705d096b.gif' title='2,\\ 6,\\ 6.67 \\times 10^{-11} \\text{ and } 1729' alt='2,\\ 6,\\ 6.67 \\times 10^{-11} \\text{ and } 1729' align=absmiddle><\/p>\n<p>The previous two series are also well-worth listening to; they feature <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/c585aab74ba410ca0e6ecc185063542e.gif' title='0,\\ \\pi,\\ \\phi,\\ i,\\ \\infty,\\ 4,\\ 7,\\ 2^{13,466,917} -1,\\ 74\\%' alt='0,\\ \\pi,\\ \\phi,\\ i,\\ \\infty,\\ 4,\\ 7,\\ 2^{13,466,917} -1,\\ 74\\%' align=absmiddle> and Game Theory. They can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/science\/5numbers.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Five Numbers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/science\/another5.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Another Five Numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>(<i>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/gooseania.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/silence-of-lambdas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gooseania<\/a><\/i>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting another series of programmes on numbers. This week&#8217;s programme features Benford&#8217;s Law which says that in naturally occurring data (so not random number tables) the number 1 appears as the first digit around 30% of the time, which is not what one would expect. It is used to detect forgeries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}