About word length distribution

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More specifically on the topic of word length distribution, when speaking of this, it is important to distinguish between the word type distribution and the word token distribution.

The binomial case is for word type lengths, meaning that the approach of throwing dice when writing out the text does not work.

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specifically under section 4.6, which is mainly an introduction to a copy of Stolfi's analysis.
(If the link to Stolfi's article fails, refresh the page first because I just had to fix the link).