Re: 99 bottles of booze on the wall, was The joy of Democracy

According to rbowman  <bowman@montana.com>:

Replacing fifths with 750 ml bottles was another example of
shrikflation.

 
750ml is fluid 25.36 ounces.   1/5 gallon is 25.60 fluid ounces.

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Thanks you Captain Obvious. Now do the math. How many .24 ounces do you
have to collect before you have 750 ml? How many bottles do you think Jack
Daniels fills a day?

A fifth is 757 ml so the difference is about 1%. There is a federal regulation,
27 CFR 19.356, which says that the fill level can vary by 2%, with about the
same number of over and underfills. So it's quite possible that a fifth actually
contains 750ml or a 750ml bottle contains a fifth.

If they really could fill that precisely, instead of 107 fifths, they'd have 108
750ml. I have trouble getting very excited about that.

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