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# Is that Benford's law I see in action?
Peaks at 1 min, 1 hour and 1 day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
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# woah nuts
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# No
Benford's law talks about likelihoods of each possible first digit. The columns in the graph are not based on first digit. The "12 hour" column contains times between 12 and 24 hours, most of which start with 1 or 2, so Benford's law predicts that there should be a peak here.

It's probably just a coincidence.
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