  Gluon jets are identified in e+e- hadronic annihilation events by tagging two
quark jets in the same hemisphere of an event. The gluon jet is defined
inclusively as all the particles in the opposite hemisphere. Gluon jets defined
in this manner have a close correspondence to gluon jets as they are defined
for analytic calculations, and are almost independent of a jet finding
algorithm. The charged particle multiplicity distribution of the gluon jets is
presented, and is analyzed for its mean, dispersion, skew, and curtosis values,
and for its factorial and cumulant moments. The results are compared to the
analogous results found for a sample of light quark (uds) jets, also defined
inclusively. We observe differences between the mean, skew and curtosis values
of gluon and quark jets, but not between their dispersions. The cumulant moment
results are compared to the predictions of QCD analytic calculations. A
calculation which includes next-to-next-to-leading order corrections and energy
conservation is observed to provide a much improved description of the data
compared to a next-to-leading order calculation without energy conservation.
There is agreement between the data and calculations for the ratios of the
cumulant moments between gluon and quark jets.
