# random number generator with leading digit of 1 30.1%, 2 15%, etc of the time from random import random, randint, shuffle from math import floor def benford_random(rates): random_percent = random() first_digit_list = [] for i in range(1,len(rates)+1): rate = rates[i-1] first_digit_list += ([i]*int(floor((rate*100)))) return first_digit_list def random_number(): random_numbers = [] first_digit_rates = [0.301, 0.176, 0.125, 0.097, 0.079, 0.067, 0.058, 0.051, .046] first_digits = benford_random(first_digit_rates) for first_digit in first_digits: num_digits = randint(2,4) current_number = first_digit*(10**(num_digits-1)) current_digit = num_digits-2 while current_digit >= 0: current_number += (randint(0,9)*(10**current_digit)) current_digit -= 1 random_numbers.append(current_number) shuffle(random_numbers) return random_numbers print random_number()
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