/sci/ - Science & Math

Any linguist bro?

I tried to do some basic calculations using what I can read on google about the Zipf law.
My goal is to determine what's the magical number of words you need to memorize to understand 99% of words of any random text.

From my own calculations, It seems that if you start with 100 words being 50% of any text, It scales to 600 words being 99%.

My goal is to determine the amount of verbs and nouns I need to learn in both cathegories (how many verbs and nouns I need to learn) to reach the 99% of nouns and verbs that will appear in any random text.

My calculations boils down to 600 words in verbs and nouns categories, but I can't confirm to be 100% sure.