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.... number and the ordinal number, one can also use the third representation of the same frequency distribution: the distribution on certain position of the digit, as related to the notorious rst digit problem [6] The transformation among the three representations is summarized by Gell Mann [7]. Equations (13) also explains why the exponent in Zipf s law is close to 1, simply because log(M 1) log(M) when M is large. As we have seen, even for the worse case of having two symbols (M = 2) the estimated 1:58 is still smaller than 2. Only for M=1 (the sequence is a binary sequence ....
Murray Gell-Mann, unpublished notes.
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