The galaxy-conditioned neighbour count is the integral of the conditional number density , rather than of alone. For a power law with ,
With the specified , , and , the factors of cancel and
A uniformly chosen point in space is not conditioned to lie on a galaxy. Its expected value is simply the mean number density times the volume:
The difference is the clustering excess. The first count means other galaxies; including the chosen central galaxy adds one. Although the assumed galaxy two-point correlation function diverges at , its contribution is integrable here because is constant.