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Zipf's law
The probability of occurrence of words or other items starts high and tapers off. Thus, a few occur very often while many others occur rarely. Formal Definition: Pn ~ 1/na, where Pn is the frequency of occurrence of the nth ranked item and a is close to 1.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Computer science
- Category: Algorithms & data structures
- Government Agency: NIST
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