(16-06-2026, 07:16 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The good fit to Recipes after shuffling, compared to the bad fit before shuffling, implies that its word frequencies do follow Zip's law, but the section is not homogeneous. There is a part near the beginning where the vocabulary is mostly static, with the same words being used over and over, and few new words. Then the style changes and suddenly there are a lot of new words being introduced ......
Thank you for your explanations, especially regarding the “Recipes” section. I think the experiment was worth it just based on the observable behavior in that section alone. So there might indeed be recipes that follow a certain pattern. That’s a plausible answer to @Bernd’s question.