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Heaps' law
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Named after Harold Stanley Heaps, but was originally discovered by Gustav Herdan.
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Heaps' law
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Heaps
'
law
(
linguistics
)
An
empirical
law that expresses the
correlation
between the
length
of a
document
or set of documents and the corresponding number of distinct
words
.
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