August 4, 1998 Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No. 1 By MALCOLM W. BROWNE r. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results. The following day he runs his eye over the homework data, and to the students' amazement, he easily ...