Re: Zipf's Law

On Feb 16, 9:28 am, "A E Neumann" <NonDigi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if Zipf's law is still being used in the design of
> corporate database software?
>From Wikipedia:
Originally, Zipf's law stated that, in a corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is roughly inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. So, the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, which occurs twice as often as the fourth most frequent word, etc. The term has come to be used to refer to any of a family of related power law probability distributions.

What is the relevance of Zipf's law to software ? Received on Fri Feb 16 2007 - 17:50:54 CET