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View SchemaBit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competition
| Authors | P. M. C. de Oliveira, D. Stauffer, F. W. S. Lima, A. O. Sousa, C. Schulze, S. Moss de Oliveira |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0608204 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608204 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.physa.2006.10.022 |
Abstract
The language competition model of Viviane de Oliveira et al is modified by associating with each language a string of 32 bits. Whenever a language changes in this Viviane model, also one randomly selected bit is flipped. If then only languages with different bit-strings are counted as different, the resulting size distribution of languages agrees with the empirically observed slightly asymmetric log-normal distribution. Several other modifications were also tried but either had more free parameters or agreed less well with reality.
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