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Old Oct 4, 2009 | 11:35 pm
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Originally Posted by MDSD
In an average person ~ 13% of caffeine is eliminated each hour; thus, total caffeine elimination usually occurs just short of 8 hours.

citation: Georgetown.edu
I don't have a citation from a prestigious educational institution, but I've seen numerous references to caffeine having a half-life of approximately four hours in the human body. That would fit for the first four hours (13*4=52%), but after that, your formula doesn't fit with the half-life claim (at a flat 13% per hour, you'd be rid of it after 7.6 hours). With a four-hour half-life, after eight hours, your body still has 25% of the original caffeine level left.

Unless you mean that it's a logarithmic scale wherein each hour your body eliminates 13% of what's remaining, in which case, it's closer to the half-life idea (8 hours later, you'd have 32% of caffeine remaining).
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