Jean-Baptiste Estoup (16 January 1868, in
Navenne
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– 17 April 1950, in
Paris
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) was a French
stenographer and writer on stenography.
Estoup was General Secretary of the Institut Sténographique de France. In his ''Gammes sténographiques'' (3d ed. 1912), he pioneered the investigation of the regularity later known as
Zipf's law.
[M. Petruszewycz]
'L'histoire de la loi d'Estoup-Zipf: documents'
, ''Mathématiques et sciences humaines'', vol. 44 (1973), pp. 41-56.
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1868 births
1950 deaths
Shorthand systems
French male writers
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