On 07 Jun 97 Raymond Pesek said to Denis Braussen...
 RP> He discovered that when someone forges an amount, they can never
 RP> generate random amounts, as would happen in real life. There's always
 RP> some sort of pattern, which allows a determination of forgery.
Many people do not know that in real life, the digits are not evenly
distributed. There are more 1's than 2's in the world, more 2's then 3's,
etc. Consider the price of entrees in a restaurant. An awful lot of the
prices will be in the teens, thus start with a 1. Some may be in the
twenties. So you get an excess of ones, a lesser excess of twos, etc. At
$100, this cycle of preponderant ones starts all over again. This applies to
all areas of pricing, street addresses, whatever. Many suburban streets will
have numbers going up into the 100's, fewer streets reach into the 200's,
etc.
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