Datasets ranging from word frequencies to neural activity all have a seemingly unusual property, known as Zipfâs law: when observations (e.g., words) are ranked from most to least frequent, the frequency of an observation is inversely proportional to its rank. Here we demonstrate that a single, general principle underlies Zipfâs law in a wide variety of domains, by showing that models in which the
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