Zipf's Law/Benford's Law

[andras@xxxxxxxxxx]

Dear Voynichers,

this was a while ago and I seem to have misplaced the relevant message, could
the person who sent me the info the first place please repeat it, or could
someone step into the breach?  Generally, people talk about Zipf's Law in
cases of word frequencies, sizes of cities, etc. which distribute over an
infinite domain. Where the range of choices is finite (and usually pretty
small, like in the case of letter or digit frequencies) there is Benford's Law
and a bunch of other possibilities.  However, _somebody_ _sometime_ somewhere
(and I think it was the Voynich list!) suggested _something_ that was (a) a
finite probability distribution and (b) one that was called "Zipf's Law" at
least by some people. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks,

Andras Kornai