In 1935 (the year before the Berlin Olympics), Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump with a leap of 26 ft 8 in, and this record would stand for 25 years (a very rare length of time for a track and field record), until it was finally broken by Ralph Boston in 1960.
The rank-size rule (or rank-size distribution) of city populations, is a commonly observed statistical relationship between the population sizes and population ranks of a nationâs cities.
Lexicographical order is alphabetical order preceded by a length comparison. That is to say, a string a is lexicographically smaller than a string b. if the length of a is smaller than the length of b, or; else they are of the same length and a is alphabetically smaller than b.