Zipf's Law and the Frequency of Characters or Words of Oracles

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the frequency distribution of Oracle characters and words, demonstrating they follow Zipf's law with three parameters, and clarifies misconceptions about data assembly.

Contribution

It shows that Oracle character and word frequencies conform to Zipf-Mandelbrot or Zipf's law with three parameters, providing parameter estimation methods.

Findings

Frequency distributions fit Zipf's law with three parameters

Parameters can be accurately estimated from data

Clarifies misconceptions about Oracle data assembly

Abstract

The article discusses the frequency of characters of Oracle,concluding that the frequency and the rank of a word or character is fit to Zipf-Mandelboit Law or Zipf's law with three parameters,and figuring out the parameters based on the frequency,and pointing out that what some researchers of Oracle call the assembling on the two ends is just a description by their impression about the Oracle data.