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The following Forsooth is from the June 2009 RSS News.


<blockquote>In other words, the population of a city is [according to Zipf's law], to a good approximation, inversely proportional to its rank [within its country]. Why this should be true, no one knows. </blockquote>
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Steven Strogatz.<br>
Guest Column <br>
[http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/math-and-the-city/?em The New York Times] <br>May 29 2009<br>
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Revision as of 15:35, 6 June 2009


The following Forsooth is from the June 2009 RSS News.

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