Re: Zipf's Law/Benford's Law

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Aug 2000, at 17:02, andras@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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,
It was not me and perhaps this is not related at all:
I remember that in one of Wentian Li's papers (or a paper in his 
site) there was a mention to Yule's distribution rather than Zipf's. I 
think that this was in the context of DNA correlations.

I hope this helps.

Gabriel