Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Mathematical Phenomenon

Zipf’s law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, when he noticed that the distribution of words in a newspaper, book, or other literary article always followed the same pattern.

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