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Nice. The "law" got the rough shape of the distribution, but (unless you have a very small filesystem) these numbers are statistically significantly different.

Your files must have been made up! ...or you have a nice demonstration of how people shouldn't do too careful calculations with Benford's law. "30.1%" — 3 significant figures, really?



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