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.
read more | digg story
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Mathematical Phenomenon
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment