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    Debian always follows The Law, this time Zipf's Law! From http://www.physorg.com/news147353055.html

    Zipf counted how many times each word appeared, and found that the probability of the occurrence of words starts high and tapers off. Specifically, the most frequent word occurs about twice as often as the second most frequent word, which occurs about twice as often as the fourth most frequent word, and so on. Mathematically, this means that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank. When the Zipf curve is plotted on a log-log scale, it appears as a straight line with a slope of -1.
    In the article it is described how a group of Swiss scientists demonstrated that Debian follows this law. I wonder if Debian follows the Law of Gravity, too.
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