What's The First Digit Of Your House Number Or Building Number?

[arwalden]

Poll question: What's The First Digit Of Your House Number Or Building Number?

Weird question, huh? But it will be interesting to see if there are any trends or curves.

~Allen

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. Our previous house number was 110

Our current one is 1100. Will our next one be 11000? I hope there isn't a next one; I detest moving!

[arwalden]

6. Several Years Ago, I Moved From 11741 to 11714...

Two different cities, two different states, one was an apartment building number, the other was a house number. It took me about a year before I could type or say my house number without having to make a conscious effort to NOT say the old number.

I detest moving too. The last two moves have been with PROFESSIONAL movers! We did about half of the pack-up and boxing ourselves, but when moving day came... I did NOTHING but observe.

[phantom power]

2. You are seeing a beautiful example of the non-uniformity of first digits.

Can you guess why?

[phantom power]

7. Benford's Law

Benford's law states that the leading digit n in base b (n =
1, ..., b − 1) occurs with probability proportional to
logb(n + 1) − logb(n). In base 10, the leading digits have
the following distribution by Benford's law:

Leading digit 	Probability
1               30.1 %
2               17.6 %
3               12.5 %
4               9.7 %
5               7.9 %
6               6.7 %
7               5.8 %
8               5.1 %
9               4.6 %

For a nice detailed explaination, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law

[arwalden]

8. That's Very Interesting...

Did you juat happen to have that name stored away in your brain... ready to retrieve at a moment's notice? Or did you have to research it just a little bit?

Thanks for the link! :thumbsup:

[phantom power]

10. I had forgotten the name, I only remembered the theory.

[photuris]

11. For added humor

Search with google for "Benford Road" The majority of addresses on the first page are in the 9000 and 900 blocks. Those witty urban planners :).

[phantom power]

14. Now that's just showing off :-)

[kick-ass-bob]

3. I would think most will start with 1

more 100's than 500's, more 1000's than 5000's, etc.

[merci_me]

4. Interesting but first digit of how many?

Ours is a one, but it's the first digit of a FIVE digit number.

[kick-ass-bob]

5. that should be another poll.

I have 4 digits. (ON MY ADDRESS!!)

[Richardo]

9. Nominated.

Best poll ever.

[Zomby Woof]

12. Pi

Our neighborhood was designed by frustrated geometry students.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

13. It's "W". Honest.

Stupid rural addresses....

[bleedingheart]

15. 1 cuz I am number 1

;-)

[trof]

16. 8

[ronnykmarshall]

17. 8

[RandomKoolzip]

18. 1.

You're trying to steal my identity, aren't you?

[arwalden]

19. 8

[sundog]

20. 13