[General] Lotto Run?

[Wayne Neumaier]

There are 2.1088*10^10 possible combinations of tickets
(56*55*54*53*52*46), which means you would need over 21 billion dollars to
buy all the tickets.

Matt, are you going to take our money to get the tickets or our prize money?

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Matthew O'Gorman <mog at rldn.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:12:06 -0500, Devin Boyer <boyerd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "A jackpot-winning ticket must match all five numbers drawn from a pot
> > containing 56 balls and then match the Mega Ball, which is drawn from a
> pot
> > containing 46 numbers. Odds of winning are almost 176 million to 1. Each
> > ticket costs $1."
> >
> > If I'm reading this right (too lazy to crunch the numbers) for $176
> > million, you can buy one of every ticket.  Because "Friday's $476 million
> > prize is payable as an annuity over 26 years," it seems like it would
> make
> > for a decent return-on-investment.
> >
> > If only I had the $176 million...
> >
> Not bad assuming no one else wins with you devin and thus splits the
> pot...
>
> By the way to everyone interested in buying tickets, I will happily take
> your money here locally.
>
>
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