Re: [math-fun] m & m's

Hersey's is obviously trying to rediscover Zipf's Law: BRN YEL RED ORG BLU GRN 30% 20% 20% 10% 10% 10% 31% 21% 16% 13% 10% 9% True Zipf's Law %'s Zipf's Law is "satisfying" to humans, because it has just the right combination of comfort and surprise -- the words of languages occur in an approximation to Zipf's Law. The popularity of TV channels is an approximation to Zipf's Law. The popularity of web pages is an approximation to Zipf's Law. At 04:19 PM 5/6/03 -0400, Thomas Colthurst wrote:

According to http://global.mms.com/us/about/products/milkchocolate.jsp, 30% of M&M's are brown, 20% are yellow, 20% are red, and orange, blue, and green all account for 10% each.