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by da_chicken 17 days ago
This feels like a underlying property that contributes to of Benford's Law[0]. That is, most numbers we measure and record are the results of various independent (addition) and dependent (multiplication) factors stacking together, and we observe this property in the distribution of them.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law