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Inspection of a properly formulated distribution for radio sources of local luminosity shows that the distribution is not as wide as has been thought. The distribution fits a Gaussian curve, with a standard deviation of one, to a good approximation.
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DAVIDSON, W. Fitting Cosmological Models to the Radio Source Counts. Nature 216, 1076–1079 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2161076a0
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