Zipf's Law

Demonstrates Zipf's Law for the use of letters in Literature.

Description

Occurrence of Zipf's Law in Literatute is demonstrated with the help of this file.

The top ten words of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" are listed below:

    'the'
    'I'
    'and'
    'to'
    'of'
    'a'
    'in'
    'that'
    'was'
    'it'

Ref:
[Holmes] http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661
[Zipfs] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

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