Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

Fractals and Scaling (2021)

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4.2 An Initial Example: Word Frequency » Quiz 1: Power-law practice

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Instructions

Suppose that the distribution of words in a novel is well approximated by

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where x is the word frequency.  Suppose further that there are 20,000 unique words in the novel.