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by bunderbunder 4898 days ago
True enough.

It'd be very interesting to collect a large pile of estimates like these and see if they come even close to following Benford's Law[1].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law

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I would imagine that it's close to the inverse - a big pile of numbers that start with 9, and many many fewer that start with 1.