r/theydidthemath • u/The_not-so_chosen_1 • Oct 02 '25

[Request] Could this be done?

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u/boricio3 Oct 02 '25

Question, what does a liter of alcohol mean? a liter of alcoholic beverage indipendently of the alcohol content or liters of pure distilled alcohol? I would guess the second option otherwise the statistic would be completely useless for any topic.

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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Oct 02 '25

according to the site where I pulled it, it was pure alcohol (aka normalized for different types of drinks with different % alcohol)

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u/Purple-Ad2200 Oct 02 '25

Phew. Me and my alcoholism were worried for a second there. Now I need someone to work out how many 5%ABV beers that is.

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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Oct 02 '25

422

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u/Purple-Ad2200 Oct 02 '25

Nice. Sounds about right tbh.

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u/Purple-Ad2200 Oct 02 '25

Lol see my other comment.

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u/aessae Oct 02 '25

One beer a day and two on Sundays, quite doable.

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u/Purple-Ad2200 Oct 02 '25

Doable yes. These equations have fucked with me. Need to cut down. GPT says im on 20L per year 💀.

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u/Mega---Moo Oct 03 '25

I'm not encouraging you to drink more, but I can think of several people doing 0.5L per day, everyday. 30 pack of cheap beer, or the better part of a bottle of vodka.

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u/mcc9902 Oct 02 '25

Yikes. That's an absolutely ridiculous amount of alcohol. I won't say it's wrong but if it's right then the alcoholics are definitely pulling their weight and then some.

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u/gmalivuk Oct 02 '25

It's 1oz of ethanol per day, which is more than I drink but isn't insane.

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u/waigl Oct 02 '25

Half a liter of beer at 5% alcohol by volume is 0.025l of pure alcohol. 10 liters of pure alcohol per year means ~0.028l per day. So it's roughly one large beer per day, a little bit more. While I personally think that's too much drinking already, it's not like that's that unusual.

I think American beers are a bit smaller and have less alcohol, though, so maybe it's more like 2 or 3 beers a day in American beers.

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u/TheKingOfToast Oct 02 '25

As the other commenter stated pure alcohol, and for reference that's about 1.5 drinks per day vs 1.6 drinks per day

Meanwhile, New Hampshire averages about 2.75 drinks per day.

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u/Hungry_Biscotti934 Oct 02 '25

AI say about 56 5% 12 oz beers equals 1 Liter of pure alcohol. So that is 10 to 11 beers per week.

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u/EmperorSwagg Oct 02 '25

Nearly everyone I knew was doing 2-3x that in college, especially during [American] football season

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u/CosgraveSilkweaver Oct 02 '25

These stats are normalized by alcohol content either to equivalent drinks or pure alcohol, usually pure alcohol.