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Zipf's Law

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Zipf's law is an empirical rule that, when word occurrences are counted and a word ranks k-th, its frequency is approximately 1/k of that of the 1st-ranked word. Zipf's law holds in all kinds of cases, such as the area of the nth-largest lunar crater being 1/n of the area of the largest crater. https://scrapbox.io/files/64e36e37f48f79001bb5d4f5.png https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/biblioplaza/ja/G_00224.html

Source updated 2023-08-21 · Snapshot 2026-10-08

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The text explains an empirical inverse relationship between rank and frequency.

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