Post * BrP8y — Curious Curator

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TIL about Ziph’s Law which says that frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. The word “the” is the most used word in English, the second most used word is used 1/2 that amount, the third 1/3, and so on. This is true not just for English but all languages.

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