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Table 1.

Frequency of occurrence of the first significant digit of the Gaia DR2 parallaxes (first line), a Lorentzian distribution with half-width γ = 360 μas (second line), a Lorentzian distribution with half-width γ = 360 μas and shifted by +260 μas (third line), and Benford’s law (fourth line).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Data/function
0.256 0.167 0.140 0.116 0.093 0.075 0.061 0.051 0.043 Gaia DR2 parallaxes
0.289 0.181 0.132 0.102 0.081 0.067 0.056 0.049 0.044 Lorentzian
0.260 0.174 0.140 0.112 0.090 0.072 0.059 0.049 0.043 Lorentzian shifted by +260 μas
0.301 0.176 0.125 0.097 0.079 0.067 0.058 0.051 0.046 Benford’s law

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