two-digit distribution according to Benford's law these values are also known: mean 38.590 variance 621.832 skewness 0.772 kurtosis −0.547 A table of the exact probabilities for the joint occurrence of the first two digits according to Benford's law is available, as is the population correlation between the first and second digits: . In popular culture Benford's law has appeared as a plot device in some twenty-first century popular entertainment. Television crime drama NUMB3RS used Benford's law in the 2006 episode "The Running Man" to help solve a series of high burglaries. The 2016 film The Accountant relied on Benford's law to expose theft of funds from a robotics company. The 2017 Netflix series Ozark used Benford's law to analyze a cartel member's financial statements and uncover fraud. The 2021 Jeremy Robinson novel Infinite 2 applied Benford's law to test whether the characters are in a simulation or reality. See also Fraud detection in predictive analytics Zipf's law References Further reading Alex Ely Kossovsky. Benford's Law: Theory, the General Law of Relative Quantities, and Forensic Fraud Detection Applications, 2014, World Scientific Publishing. . External links Benford Online Bibliography, an online bibliographic database on Benford's law. Testing Benford's Law An open source project showing Benford's law in action against publicly available datasets. Statistical laws Theory of probability distributions