Surprising mathematical law tested on Project Gutenberg texts
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 14:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Zipf's law in its simplest form, as formulated in the thirties by American linguist George Kingsley Zipf, states surprisingly that the most frequently occurring word in a text appears twice as often as the next most frequent word, three times more than the third most frequent one, four times more than the fourth most frequent one, and so on.