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The angular correlation function is a function which measures the projected clustering of galaxies, due to discrepancies between their actual and expected distributions. The function may be computed as follows: $w(\theta )={\frac {1}{N}}{\frac {dP}{d\Omega }}-1$, where $P$ represents the conditional probability of finding a galaxy, $\Omega$ denotes the solid angle, and $N$ is the mean number density. In a homogeneous universe, the angular correlation scales with a characteristic depth.