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Britton criticizes the accuracy of the stress value and surmises that the rotation field is used during geometrical necessary dislocations (GND) calculation process. It is their opinion, however, that the topic of the absolute values of the stresses is not discussed at all in their paper. Their paper is focused rather on relative values (stress partitioning at different strains), but not on absolute values. It should, however, be mentioned that, due to the high orientation changes within grains, the error for stress measurements may be considerable, as pointed out by Britton. The stress measurements should, therefore, be regarded with care. The authors have checked the GND calculation code carefully and the authors confirm that the correct rotation gradient field data is adopted in the GND calculation process.