Zipf's Law

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

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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

Cite As

Nabin (2026). Zipf's Law (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27013-zipf-s-law), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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