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Zipf’s law. Do the previous exercise for the probability distribution where search hits th...

Zipf’s law. Do the previous exercise for the probability distribution where search hits the i th smallest key with probability 1/(iHN) where HN is a Harmonic number (see page 185). This distribution is called Zipf’s law. Compare the move-to-front heuristic with the optimal arrangement for the distributions in the previous exercise, which is to keep the keys in increasing order (decreasing order of their expected frequency).

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 3.1