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Re:Do 20 pages of a book gives you 90% of its words? by kiechu on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:49PM (#14673789)
Yes, that's Zipf's law applied. I doubt that many language learners knew about this law. I think it is still worth pointing out, that when you go through the beginning of the book, reading will become rapidly easier.
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Re:Do 20 pages of a book gives you 90% of its words? by twoodfin on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:49PM (#14674038)
It'd be an interesting exercise in Modernist writing to try producing a book that violates Zipf's law, say by hashing all but the most common few hundred words into chapter buckets.
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