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Much better - it is like the second version of some code... more robust and trustworthy... 
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Well, you've got 1-9, where all digits except 0 appear once.
Then you've got 10-19, where 1 occurs 11 times, every other digit, including 0 now, once.
Then you've got 20-29, where 2 occurs 11 times, etc.
by 90-99, we have all digits in count except 0 which lags by 10 (every digit occurs twice in each set of 10 except 0 which occurs once, so you've got 10 sets, so 0 lags by 10. (every other digit in the set x0-x9 occurs 11 times).
100 - 109 - Now 0 makes up for a lost digit, but loses out again in the 1n0-1n9 (where 10 > n > 0)
Ultimately, at 1000, 0 should still be the least frequent digit, and 1 gets a head start on everyone else.
I think I thought that through properly, but my brain is still fried mapping XML to bizarre property fields in strange class relationships that someone else wrote and where all the rules are embedded in the business logic for creating said entity containers. 
Marc
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Not bad for an old chap Marc...
The only thing is that 0 is behind by 11 in the 1-99 range, so the three zeroes of 1000 can't help it out...
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Yep, same thinking I had. Looks solid to me 
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We need a bit of context, here.
0. Strictly normal daily usage, 1 is the first number (and is also a article, grammatically), so it will come into most use.
1. In a supermarket, 99, because they treat their customers like ****ing idiots.
2. In a nursery school: 3, 4, or 5.
3. In a brothel, somewhere between 68 and 70 (non-inclusive).
4. Etc.
Whatever "answer" you give as being absolute will have some context, but will be wrong in all the others.
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What about the numerical context?
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You won the big prize today!!!
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There's a touch of Benfield's Benford's Law about this...
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Benford's law is more about observation of probability in naturally occurring number lists and it is much more a phenomenon...
I tried to keep it more terrestrial...
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Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Real programmers start counting with 0, and logically speaking, a list of 1000 numbers would only go to 999.
Using my logic:
Most instances = 1 through 9 (all tied)
Least instances = 0
If you did it wrong (as stated by the original message), 1 would be first (by just one instance), and 0 would still be the least used.
Actual results:
1-1000
0 = 300
1 = 300
2 = 300
3 = 300
4 = 300
5 = 300
6 = 300
7 = 300
8 = 300
9 = 189
0-999
0 = 190
1 = 300
2 = 300
3 = 300
4 = 300
5 = 300
6 = 300
7 = 300
8 = 300
9 = 297
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 24-Jan-17 14:53pm.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Real programmers start counting with 0
And outlaw programmers keep their logic as secret... 
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There are no secrets with regards to being an outlaw. That would put the rest of society in danger, and not even I'm that insensitive...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's taking digits into account, though, but, numerically, eleven isn't one twice, for example; it's eleven (which becomes obvious with any base other than 10).
Either zero or one would have to be the absolute top, in real-world usage:
0. Unlike any other number, any amount of zeroes = zero, so finance, decimal fractions, etc, will rack up huge amounts of the non-existent buggers.
1. Everything (that grokels use) starts from 1, so it is therefore highly used because it's always there, even if [2 ... 99] aren't. And, language-wise, expressions like "Oh, just one more thing..." are used a gajillion times more often than "Oh, just [2 ... 99] more things...".
Someone must have done a study on this!
It's way more interesting and useful than a huge amount of "research" I hear about.
(i.e. it's a tiny bit useful and interesting)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: which is the most frequent digit in the list of numbers form 1 to 1000?
Assuming that those are spelling errors:
2 it the least frequent, with only one instance.
0 is the most frequent, with three instances.
Poor old 1 has only two instances in the collection {1, 2, 1000}
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Remember! I'm not only writing bad English, but also reading that way...
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Damn!
I glanced at your OP too quickly, obviously, and completely misread it.
Why do pressures of work always have to get in the way of really useful stuff, like talking bollocks in the Lounge!?!
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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13 being the less frequent because I don;t like it and my girlfriend says it makes her butt look big.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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11s Ok but 12 is better. Oh you mean her butt...that's a touchy subject!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Being as this is the "Who Cares Puzzle Of The Day", wouldn't the best answer be...
"WHO CARES?"
Just saying. 
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Sod it - my brain is too knackered to work this out. Time to cheat!
Enumerable.Range(1, 1000)
.SelectMany(i => i.ToString())
.GroupBy(d => d, (Digit, items) => new { Digit, Count = items.Count() })
.Dump();
Digit | Count
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1 | 301
2 | 300
3 | 300
4 | 300
5 | 300
6 | 300
7 | 300
8 | 300
9 | 300
0 | 192
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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0 is the least used
1 is the most used
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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