Galaxies, hurricanes, whirlpools. Black Spleenwort, Barnsley Fern. Power laws every bloody where.
(My utterly uninformed knee-jerk reaction here, but even if I was a true believer I don't think I'd reach for "compelling".)
(My utterly uninformed knee-jerk reaction here, but even if I was a true believer I don't think I'd reach for "compelling".)
if you add random rolls, you get a gaussian, thanks central limit theorem.
if you sum them, you get a lognormal distribution, which approximates a power law up to a cutoff