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Article listed as GA the day before DYK nomination and is long enough, cited, copyvio-free + neutral. Hook facts cited inline and in the article. QPQ done. Personally my preference is for ALT1, or a variant of ALT2 that gives a brief explanation of what Benford's law is, such as:
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Support ALT2b. 99% of main page readers will not know Benford's law so ALT2 just becomes "factorials obey something" (or "something obeys something" if they don't know factorials). People like me who actually know Benford's law would be surprised if factorials did
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Source: See six separately sourced bullet points for different explanations of this claim in the article
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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though really all of the hooks are fine, it's just a matter of interestingness.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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Template:Did you know nominations
this nomination's talk page
the article's talk page
Knowledge talk:Did you know
Theleekycauldron
talk
DYK check
Reviewer instructions
Earwig's Copyvio Detector
QPQ check
Character count
A Simple Word Counter
Reviewers' template
Find sources (notability)
Hook length
Back to T:TDYK
Article history
factorials
Jain literature
Sefer Yetzirah
Jewish mysticism


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Benford's law

factorials
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