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The Zipf Mystery
Vsauce
Vsauce's explainer on Zipf's law, the pattern in which the frequency of a word is inversely related to its rank. It shows the pattern across many domains and discusses why it remains unexplained.
Linked as an entertaining introduction to Zipf's law and power-law distributions.
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