BenfordsLaw

Sample application showing Benford's Law by looking at file sizes of files found on the local disk.

It may initially show a different distribution, but when looking at many files it usually will converge to the default distribution suggested by Benford unless the file sizes are not randomly spread, i.e. if large numbers of equally sized files are stored.

Getting started

Build it and create the distribution files

./gradlew install

Run it

build/install/BenfordsLaw/bin/BenfordsLaw

It will start to fetch sizes of files on your local disk and print out the current count of sizes starting with the numbers from 0 to 9 (0 is only used for 0-sized files).

You can also pass in the start-directory as commandline argument.

Change it

Create matching Eclipse project files

./gradlew eclipse

Licensing

• BenfordsLaw is licensed under the [MIT License].