On the coexistence of competing languages
Table 1: Mean fraction ⟨K⟩/N of surviving languages for a uniform distribution of attractivenesses. Comparison between numerically measured values for N=10 and N=40 (see Figure 5) and the asymptotic analytical prediction (39), for four values of W.
['[ITALIC] W', '[ITALIC] N=10', '[ITALIC] N=40', 'Eq.\xa0( 39 )']
Nw. (38) Each dataset is the outcome of 107 draws of the attractiveness profile. The widths of the distributions pK are observed to shrink as N is increased, in agreement with the expected 1/√N behavior stemming from the law of large numbers.