%0 Journal Article %T Reply to 'Comment on "Vortex distribution in a confining potential" %A Matheus Girotto %A Alexandre P. dos Santos %A Renato Pakter %A Yan Levin %J Physics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.026102 %X We argue that contrary to recent suggestions, non-extensive 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. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3304v1