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The present comment is on “Study of multi-muon events produced in pp¯ interactions at s√=1.96 TeV” by T. Aaltonen et al. (the CDF Collaboration, Eur. Phys. J. C, 2010, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1336-0).