Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 11:42
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.