Today as you are slogging through the tasks marked on your calendar, you might notice ... of Portland whose hobby includes looking at number patterns in dates, describes (PDF) among other things ...

It’s true the number pattern stands out ... carries no inherent meaning beyond its function in our particular calendar. This is true for numbers in general: Their meanings are limited to ...

He argues that if you pick a bunch of random numbers from a bunch of random data sets, they will tend toward Benford's law. In other words, although countless data sets show Benford's pattern ...