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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by webmaven on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:43AM (#13285276)
The Ordinal of the position in the sorted list of observed values.
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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by imagist on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:30PM (#13285649)
So basically if you order by frequency, order correlates with frequency? Isn't that just two ways of saying the same thing? Isn't it obvious? I don't get why we would need a law for that so I feel like I'm missing some detail.
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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by jjaredsimpson on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:42PM (#13285741)
Not just correlates.

rank * frequency = constant

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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by imagist on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:52AM (#13291492)
Ah, that is the missing piece!
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