Recently, Dean and Lefèvre [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 198301 (2003)] developed a method for testing the statistical mechanical theory of granular packings proposed by Edwards and co-workers [Physica A 157, 1080 (1989); Phys. Rev. E 58, 4758 (1998)]. The method relies on the prediction that the ratio of t...
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