On Feb 16, 9:28 am, "A E Neumann" <NonDigi......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 ?
carlfederl
| Fri, 16 May 2008 22:05:00 GMT |