A dumb bar bet...

[DcifrThs]

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Sorry, didn't see you weren't yet jumping into different combinations...

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no you were right. im pulling up excel to get it correct right now.

# is well over 100billion i think

its <93C1....93C5> * <12C3.....12C3> for each of the varying # of alcohols and mixers. im not writing it all out.

sorry for the earlier mistake
Barron

[DougOzzzz]

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Sorry, didn't see you weren't yet jumping into different combinations...

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no you were right. im pulling up excel to get it correct right now.

# is 12,105,534,100

so you can make 12 billion different drinks.

its <93C1....93C5> (vector) * <12C3.....12C3> (vector)

sorry for the earlier mistake
Barron

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shouldn't it be <12C0....12C3> which is exactly what I did? why are you ignoring all the drinks with 0, 1, or 2 mixers?

[DcifrThs]

yes. yours is right.

-Barron

[Ulysses]

You guys are all ignoring different volumes of the same mixers and alcohols used to create different drinks. So, it's a lot more.

[parttimepro]

Yes, it's very nearly infinite. Hell, you don't need all those different kinds of alcohol to make an infinite number of drinks. Just take gin and vermouth. You can serve 100% gin or 100% vermouth. You can make a martini with 50/50. A dry martini with 75% gin. A slightly less dry martini with 62.5% gin... you see where I'm going with this.

Eventually you get to the point where different drinks vary only by 1 molecule of gin and vermouth. This is functionally infinitely (i.e. the number of combinations is greater than the number of atoms in the universe), but let's try to estimate within a few orders of magnitude the actual number.

We'll say a drink is 200 mL and weighs about 200 g. 200 grams is about 11 moles of water, or 6.7 x 10^24 molecules. If there are only two types of liquor going into a drink, there are 6.7 x 10^24 drink combinations. With three types of liquor, it's ((6.7 x 10^24)^2)/2 = 2.2 x 10^49.

Perhaps some actuary can correct my statistics, but I believe with 9 liquors and 3 mixers, the number is very large.

Then you can add different drink sizes, etc. Whoever guessed the highest wins the bet.

[drudman]

Vee have over 10^49 types of beer, vrom all over zee vorld. Call me vhen you are ready.

[Ulysses]

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You can make a martini with 50/50. A dry martini with 75% gin.

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You are really bad at making martinis.

[parttimepro]

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You are really bad at making martinis.

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You're not fk'n kidding. Can't stand em, even if they are made right.

I do like those florescent girl drinks they call martinis and serve in martini glasses, but then, I also like Boone's Strawberry wine coolers. It really impresses the ladies to see me drinking that straight from the bottle.

[SossMan]

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You guys are all ignoring different volumes of the same mixers and alcohols used to create different drinks. So, it's a lot more.

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i'm quite sure that wasn't what the OP was getting at.

[AlphaWice]

This is easy.

First, consider all the alcohol that goes into the drink. There are 93 + 93C2 + 93C3 + 93C4 + 93C5 combinations.

Second, consider all the nonalcohol that goes into the drink. There are 12 + 12C2 + 12C3 combinations.

So multiply those two together.