Zipf's Law and the Frequency of Characters or Words of Oracles

12/09/2014
by   Xiuli Wang, et al.
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The article discusses the frequency of characters of Oracle,concluding that the frequency and the rank of a word or character is fit to Zipf-Mandelboit Law or Zipf's law with three parameters,and figuring out the parameters based on the frequency,and pointing out that what some researchers of Oracle call the assembling on the two ends is just a description by their impression about the Oracle data.

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