Power law

\nIn physics, a power law relationship between two scalar quantities x and y is any such that the relationship can be written as

y = ax^k

where a (the constant of proportionality) and k (the exponent of the power law) are constants. Examples of power law relationships:\n* Stefan-Boltzmann law\n* please add more to this list...' Examples of power law probability distributions:\n* Pareto distribution\n* Zipf's law\n* please add more to this list...' Power laws are among the most frequent scaling laws that describe the scaling invariance found in many natural phenomena.

External links

\n*Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto - a ranking tutorial\n*A claim that the blogosphere obeys a powerlaw distribution