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There is a strong interest in finding metrics for replacing the common LOC measure of software size, with most of the interest focusing on the Function Point measures. Mark II Function Points were proposed as a better technique than the original of Albrecht Function Points. In this work, the results of a study comparing those measures are stated, and they are also compared against effort and LOC. Since other published results are based on samples generated randomly, it is interesting to see both methods working when applied to the same projects. The data collected comes from the measurements of academic projects. The fact that all projects have been developed in the same environment (mostly 4GL) and domain (accounting information systems) allows the value of the “technical complexity adjustment” variable to be set to constant and also allows us to examine the relationships among the variables. Several …