  The Newcomb-Benford Law, which is also called the first digit phenomenon, has
applications in diverse phenomena ranging from social and computer networks,
engineering systems, natural sciences, and accounting. In forensics, it has
been used to determine intrusion in a computer server based on the measured
expectations of first digits of time varying values of data, and to check
whether the information in a data base has been tampered with. There are slight
deviations from the law in certain natural data, as in fundamental physical
constants, and here we propose a more general bin distribution of which the
Newcomb-Benford Law is a special case so that it can be used to provide a
better fit to such data, and also open the door to a mathematical examination
of the origins of such deviations.
