Posted on 1st February 2017 20th February 2017
From Suffolk to China: Zipf’s law in action
In any country if you rank all the cities by population, these populations will follow the same pattern worldwide. The law is so strong that you could use this as a geeky party trick: give me the population of the largest city in a country and I will tell you the population of the 50th largest. It is a remarkable feature of cities that their populations follow not only follow a power law, but that the distribution is identical across the planet.
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