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Old 05-25-2007, 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted by ceptimus View Post
One of the first people to report this fact was the nineteenth-century astronomer, Simon Newcomb, who noticed that books containing tables of logarithms always showed more wear on the pages of numbers starting with '1'.
Simon Newcomb's brother was the great-grandfather of physicist William Newcomb, who is best known in freethinking circles as the deviser of Newcomb's Paradox.
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