Uniform Distribution Theory
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Journal

Uniform Distribution Theory


Volume
& Issue

Volume 14, Issue 1


Published
on

May 16, 2018


Pages

19-42


DOI

Article

Distribuion of Leading Digits of Numbers Ii

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Authors

Yukio Ohkubo Affiliation:
Department of Business Administration The International University of Kagoshima 8-34-1 Sakanoue, Kagoshima-shi, 891-0197 JAPAN
and Oto Strauch Affiliation:
Institue of Mathematics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia


Abstract

In this paper, we study the sequence \( (f(p_n))_{n \geq 1} \), where \( p_n \) is the nth prime number and \( f \) is a function of a class of slowly increasing functions including \( f(x) = \log_b x^r \) and \( f(x) = \log_b(\log_b x)^r \), where \( b \geq 2 \) is an integer and \( r > 0 \) is a real number. We give upper bounds of the discrepancy \( D^*_{N_i}(f(p_n), g) \) for a distribution function \( g \) and a sub-sequence \( (N_i)_{i \geq 1} \) of the natural numbers. Especially for \( f(x) = \log_b x^r \), we obtain the effective results for an upper bound of \( D^*_{N_i}(f(p_n), g) \).


Keywords

primenumbers, Benford’s law, distribution function, discrepancy, regularly varying function.


Citation

Ohkubo, Y. & Strauch, O. (2019). Distribuion of leading digits of numbers ii. Uniform Distribution Theory, 14(1), 19–42. https://doi.org/10.2478/udt-2019-0003

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