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was not a deep law in natural language, but rather that any randomly generated sequence of symbols would exhibit Zipf's Law if you looked at the distribution of words by rank.
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This biographical article about a Chinese scientist is a
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in 1982 and PhD in Physics and Complex Systems from
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Columbia University
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology and Chemistry
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Northwell Health
Thesis
Problems in complex systems
bioinformatician
editor-in-chief
Computational Biology and Chemistry
editorial board
Journal of Theoretical Biology
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Beijing University
Columbia University
Zipf's Law
"Computational Biology and Chemistry Editorial Board"
Elsevier
"Journal of Theoretical Biology Editorial Board"
Elsevier
"Wentian Li, PhD"
"Random texts exhibit Zipf's-law-like word frequency distribution"
doi
10.1109/18.165464


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