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We argue that contrary to recent suggestions, nonextensive statistical mechanics has no relevance for inhomogeneous systems of particles interacting by short-range potentials. We show that these systems are perfectly well described by the usual Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics.

Figure 1

Comparison between the overdamped dynamics data of Andrade et al. [1] (circles) with the predictions of BG statistics (squares) for $T=0$. The perfect agreement between the two clearly shows that the equilibrium state of the system of Andrade et al. is described by the standard BG statistical mechanics down to $T=0$.