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Lévy flight en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971).

Meanings

  1. A type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.

Forms

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Relateds

Lévy glass

Synonyms

Lévy walk