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Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences 
Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 67-71
doi:10.1155/S1173912697000060

Classroom note: Radioactivity half-lives considered as data

T. P. Hutchinson

School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, N.S.W., Australia

Abstract

Half-lives of radioactive nuclides range over more than 20 orders of magnitude. It is striking that, nevertheless, statistical laws may be discovered in these numbers: a log-normal distribution provides a good description.