How valid is Zipf's law?

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How valid is Zipf's law?

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Has to do with the frequency of words in a text.

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Re: How valid is Zipf's law?

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What? No quick explanatory link?
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Dalek Prime wrote:What? No quick explanatory link?
It's not quick, but it'll do:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

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Yeah, I'll pass lol!
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Re: How valid is Zipf's law?

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I quite like vsauce, here he is on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE
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