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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by klodolph on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:15AM (#13334142)
This is incorrect, you need to take a limit as n->infinity while dividing by a factor of √n, otherwise the limit does not exist. But Galton boxes in practice are not very large, so they aren't very good approximations of normal distributions.

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