Galaxy number counts per unit magnitude and per square degree. Red triangles are for VVDS measurements, with error bars representing the Poissonian uncertainty. The red line shows the median number counts of the 23 mock samples, and the grey area shows the 16th to 84th percentile range of the mock number counts distribution. The VVDS number counts agree well with the number counts obtained by McCracken et al. (2003) for the CFH12K-VIRMOS deep field.