[AndrewC]

. The Santa Fé Institute also has some papers, one of which shows that Zipf's law can be derived from randomly generated text (some letters and some blanks). I would argue that Zipf's law has little empirical content

Please help me out. I waded through the index looking for Zipf and the papers I found made no mention of the derivation.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Sorry for the late reply. I'm still paying the price for having a Compaq. The paper I was referring to is:

http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/pub lications/wpabstract/199103016