Re: Review | Zipf's law

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zipf's law
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
> 
>> Zipf's law, an empirical law formulated using mathematical
>> statistics, refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the
>> physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian
>> distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law
>> probability distributions. The law is named after the American
>> linguist George Kingsley Zipf (1902?1950), who popularized it and
>> sought to explain it (Zipf 1935, 1949), though he did not claim to
>> have originated it.[1] The French stenographer Jean-Baptiste Estoup
>> (1868?1950) appears to have noticed the regularity before Zipf.[2] It
>> was also noted in 1913 by German physicist Felix Auerbach[3]
>> (1856?1933).
 
Yawn. 

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Jim Pennino

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