Zipf’s law and L. Levin probability distributions
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Zipf's law and L. Levin's probability distributions
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عنوان ژورنال: Functional Analysis and Its Applications
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0016-2663,1573-8485
DOI: 10.1007/s10688-014-0052-1