Chance News 48

Quotations

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Forsooths

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.

The New York Times
May 29 2009
Guest Column]
Steven Strogatz.

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