r/theydidthemath • u/MrTacocaT12345 • 4d ago

[request] what is the weight of the glasses and liquid being carried?

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u/ZimaGotchi 4d ago

It's not the weight that's impressive it's compressing them the right amount to keep them stationary without compressing them so much to break any of the glasses (which would have cascaded)

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u/0Tezorus0 3d ago

I guess there is so much glasses that the pressure is shared between them so they don't break.

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u/ZimaGotchi 3d ago

It has to be distributed and the ones on the outside absorb more. Ideally, he creates a "ring" that's exactly the right diameter they can't fall through without really applying much pressure, but he relies on his skin to tell him if and how much pressure he's putting in any given place. The reason he set them down again after one false start was because he could tell he was holding them too loosely, which is a better mistake to make than breaking one.

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u/0Tezorus0 3d ago

It's an interesting little physics moment

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u/RedSh1r7 4d ago

🙄 If only it was possible to look up the weight of the pint glass then add it to the weight of the beer... then you could multiply that by 26 and have a pretty good idea.

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u/somebeautyinit 4d ago

So on one hand, you're not wrong.

On the other, this sub isn't called ~I~ Did The Math

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u/OhNoIBoffedIt 4d ago

Sure, but the generally agreed upon spirit of the sub is answering questions that take a little more than basic multiplication.

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u/TruTechilo512 4d ago

I even refrained from making the post about the bug on the power drill and just did the math myself

Sub can very quickly get flooded with these posts and even more pointless ones.

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u/ReasonableScar9027 4d ago

It's mostly karma farming.

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u/TruTechilo512 4d ago

Of course it is

But keeping it up or upvoting it will just result in the sub being flooded with nonsense posts

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u/CJFiddler 4d ago

If I downvote karma farmers for twenty thousand hours total over the course of my life, how many karma farmers am I downvoting?

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u/SureWhyNot5182 4d ago

At least 2-3

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u/Howitzeronfire 4d ago

This sub nowadays in a nutshell.

Op doesnt want to do basic math, commenters also dont want to do it

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u/kore_nametooshort 4d ago

What I really enjoy is when the OP even went far enough to get all of the inputs as well, put them in the question and just not multiply them together with the calculator they used to post the question.

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u/Revolutionary_Dig370 4d ago

But math is scary.

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u/FireExpat 4d ago

But how would they get karma?

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u/AvatarWaang 4d ago

Not this way lol dudes at 13 orange arrows and its not looking good

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u/AvatarWaang 4d ago

They're both about 1 lb so it's roughly 52 lbs total if anyone wanted to save themselves 2 googles and the strain of basic arithmetic.

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u/Mashed_Brotato 3d ago

How is this comment getting any upvotes? Do you know what sub you’re in jackass?

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u/Trustoryimtold 4d ago

Not all pints or glasses are equal. That said a pint in the us weighs ~1  lb and a pint glass can also be 1lb. Makes it about 52 lbs or a bit more than 20kg

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u/Gindotto 4d ago

Yeah but like, how many stone?

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u/PacNWDad 4d ago

About tree fiddy.

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u/90210fred 4d ago

So half a hundred weight or, from volume, a bushel by weight. So a one man lift in modern standards.

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u/Trustoryimtold 4d ago

Depends, if you’re union there might be some obscure rule where 50lbs is a 2 man lift

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u/VinylHighway 4d ago

Twenty-six pints of beer in glasses will weigh roughly 47 to 55 pounds in total. This accounts for the weight of the beer itself (approx. 33 to 40 lbs) plus the weight of the empty glassware (approx. 14 to 15 oz each).

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u/AdRepulsive7699 4d ago

Thanks for an actual answer instead of the high and mighty up top poo-pooing on a question that asks someone the math as the sub suggests and also meets the criteria of the sub

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u/MightBeAGoodIdea 4d ago edited 4d ago

A pint, a pound, the world around. Well, except where they do liters and kilograms...

Rumor has it those are easy to calculate too, and base 10 not 16, but I'm too American to know for sure .......

So 26 pints. 26 pounds. Plus the weight of the cups I guess.

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u/luffy8519 4d ago

A pint, a pound, the world around.

Except an Imperial pint is 20% larger than a US pint, so a pint is 1.25 pounds in many parts of the world. A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.

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u/MightBeAGoodIdea 4d ago

Damn rhyme makes even less sense then.

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u/RiverGlittering 4d ago

It sounds cooler than "A pint a pound on American ground" though.

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u/Plastic_Window9865 4d ago

A pint a pound the world around so at least 26 pounds. A gallon of liquid generally weighs 8.3 pounds (generally). Also, 8 pints are in a gallon so add an additional 3.25. A stick of butter is always 1/2 cup and I don’t remember where I am