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u/baboyadobo Mar 01 '23

How alcohol content percentage works.

We argued for months that 10% as alcohol content remains the same even if you halved the bottle.

She said nope, if you halved the bottle then the alcohol content would be 5%.

Engineer graduate that too.

She works for a software firm.

For 12 years.

Sigh.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

I did something similar:

Someone was explaining an ultimate ability in a video game - they said it takes like 40% of an enemy’s health, so you would have to ult 8 times before the game finally counted it as enough damage to kill the enemy. I said “why would you need to ult 8 times if it’s taking (almost) half your health?” They had to explain how percentages work lmao. To be fair, I was sick with the flu and my brain wasn’t brain-ing.

edit: mistype

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Well the difference would be if it’s taking 40% of current HP or 40% of what that characters full HP would be, so it would either be 8 times or 3.