1988: Peter Schatte claims according to Benford’s Law that base-8 is the preferred number base for computer design as it minimizes expected memory storage space.
1993: Benford’s Law is applied in accounting fraud detection. Since then it has been used to analyse additional data sources.
1995: T. P. Hill proved Benford’s Law about certain distributions and justified its application to Forensic accounting.
2013: M. Nigrini analyses $8 million fraud according to Benford’s law.
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