Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomen...

Courtesy Debian-News.net  Mon, 12/01/2008 - 12:00

Zipf’s law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations.

The researchers used four orders of magnitude of data detailing the evolution of open source software applications created for a Linux operating system to confirm the assumption.


 

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