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And that naïve artist somehow managed to create a work that follows Zipf's law, 4 centuries before it was discovered?
by cronopios 1y ago
And that naïve artist somehow managed to create a work that follows Zipf's law, 4 centuries before it was discovered?
- poulpy123 1y agoWhy would it not ?
- DonaldFisk 1y agoRandom Texts Exhibit Zipf’s-Law-Like Word Frequency Distribution: https://www.nslij-genetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ieee92_pre.pdf https://www.nslij-genetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ie... It also applies to a range of natural phenomena, e.g. lunar craters and earthquakes: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6241/2019sp/readings/Newman-2005-distributions.pdf https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6241/2019sp/readings/Ne... So the fact that word frequencies in the Voynich Manuscript follow Zipf's law doesn't prove it's written in a natural language.