https://github.com/rayhanadev/zipf-law

Testing Zipf's law from a Vsauce video I watched!
https://github.com/rayhanadev/zipf-law

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Testing Zipf's law from a Vsauce video I watched!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rayhanadev/zipf-law
• Owner: rayhanadev
• Created: 2025-02-09T04:27:18.000Z (5 months ago)
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• Last Pushed: 2025-02-09T04:57:08.000Z (5 months ago)
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# Zipf's Law

I saw [this](https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE) Vsauce video on Zipf's Law

and about five minutes in I was like "I need to test that" so naturally

I loaded up Zed and pulled the text corpus of Macbeth from shakespeare.mit.edu

to see if it held up.

## Results

I ran the script on Macbeth and got the following results:

![](./word_frequency_distribution.png)

Curiously, it works out pretty well haha! xD