Heap's Law
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Anton,

there is a relationship between F and D as well. The least frequent word should appear once, which does not mean that F = D, but I would suggest to take F = D/2, i.e. cut off the harmonic series when the count drops below 0.5. Basically rounding.

Apart from that, it is always dangerous to use the word 'infinite'  Wink .

The number of words ever written down in the history of mankind is rather large, but still finite.

10 E+16 seems like a reasonable upper limit.
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Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 04-02-2018, 10:22 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Koen G - 04-02-2018, 10:27 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Emma May Smith - 04-02-2018, 10:34 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 04-02-2018, 10:41 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by -JKP- - 04-02-2018, 10:44 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by ReneZ - 05-02-2018, 07:34 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by Koen G - 05-02-2018, 07:52 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by -JKP- - 05-02-2018, 08:02 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by ReneZ - 05-02-2018, 08:48 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by Torsten - 05-02-2018, 10:26 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by Anton - 05-02-2018, 01:56 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Koen G - 05-02-2018, 03:39 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by ReneZ - 05-02-2018, 04:50 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 05-02-2018, 06:20 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by DonaldFisk - 06-02-2018, 05:31 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by MarcoP - 05-02-2018, 07:53 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Anton - 05-02-2018, 07:54 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by ReneZ - 06-02-2018, 06:49 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by Helmut Winkler - 06-02-2018, 11:05 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by MarcoP - 07-02-2018, 01:27 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Torsten - 07-02-2018, 03:18 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by ReneZ - 07-02-2018, 03:47 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by MarcoP - 07-02-2018, 04:55 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Torsten - 07-02-2018, 06:14 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Koen G - 07-02-2018, 03:53 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 07-02-2018, 11:25 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Emma May Smith - 08-02-2018, 12:44 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by MarcoP - 08-02-2018, 11:38 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by Anton - 08-02-2018, 11:53 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 09-02-2018, 06:55 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by MarcoP - 10-02-2018, 11:23 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 09-02-2018, 06:58 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Emma May Smith - 09-02-2018, 08:57 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 09-02-2018, 09:33 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 10-02-2018, 09:12 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by MarcoP - 11-02-2018, 12:25 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Torsten - 11-02-2018, 02:21 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 11-02-2018, 10:34 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by Torsten - 11-02-2018, 12:09 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 11-02-2018, 12:44 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by MarcoP - 11-02-2018, 02:59 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Torsten - 11-02-2018, 08:14 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by ReneZ - 11-02-2018, 01:50 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by davidjackson - 12-02-2018, 07:05 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Torsten - 13-02-2018, 12:57 AM
RE: Heap's Law - by -JKP- - 12-02-2018, 09:47 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Wladimir D - 13-02-2018, 01:51 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Koen G - 13-02-2018, 03:02 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by Anton - 13-02-2018, 10:43 PM
RE: Heap's Law - by -JKP- - 14-02-2018, 01:23 AM

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