power law

See also: powerlaw

English

power law (plural power laws)

(mathematics) A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x) = a.x^k). [from 20th c.]
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 314:
  the death toll from a large number of small civil wars is lower than that from a few big interstate wars, to say nothing of world wars, consistent with the power-law distribution of deadly quarrels.

mathematical relationship

Russian: степенная зави́симость (stepennaja zavísimostʹ), степенной зако́н (stepennoj zakón), (somewhat) степенная фу́нкция (stepennaja fúnkcija)

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