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Re: VMs: Re: Re: Word distribution



Hi everyone,

At 15:54 07/03/2004 +0000, Gabriel Landini wrote:
I thought that Nick was saying that the frequency=1 words were unusually
high...

Essentially, yes: though I would be unsurprised if the number of frequency=2 words were also much higher than one might expect.


In no way am I dissing Zipf's Laws: rather, just cautioning that trying to draw inferences from Zipf-style behaviour may be more hazardous than would be immediately obvious. :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....


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