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From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as
by secretasiandan 10y ago
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law
Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent word, etc.: the rank-frequency distribution is an inverse relation.
- johnlbevan2 10y agoAh; I'd interpreted inversely proportional to mean "y = -mx" rather than "y = m / x", forgetting my GCSE maths terms :S. Thanks for the pointer.