$540 Million Lottery
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- dbloc0
doesn't the commission know how many winning tickets there are and where they were sold?
- albums0
$640m lump sum after taxes gets you down to $347m
identity:
payout: $347m / 75 = $4.6m ea
odds: 1 in 2,346,666.67slinky:
payout: $347m / 14 = $24.8m ea
odds: 1,257,142.86odds are based on all tickets having unique # combinations of each of them
- albums0
identity's correct odds are 1 in 477,333.333
my original calculation didn't include the 5 each
- akrok0
oh, that's going to hurt! better off, not winning at all.
- scarabin0
i'd go to space.
- :Dmonospaced
- I'll leave this here just in case you win
http://www.virgingal…albums - yep. so would I.dbloc
- monospaced0
I'd buy QBN
- effectively making it worthless.albums
- I would address moderation and spam concerns, and would work on improving the EC.monospaced
- sounds like a huge waste of time. good luck.CanHasQBN
- JayCee0
I would invest $530 million into Hookers and Blow... then probably just waste the rest on stupid shit.
- out of the gate, you'll be in the hole $183m you won't be able to afford any more "stupid shit"albums
- ok, rainman, give him a breakmonospaced
- Who the fuck let the accountant in here?JayCee
- CanHasQBN0
They want to keep working?? Then why bother playing the lottery?
I love that one of them wants to take a backpacking trip through Europe. Backpacking? You're not a college kid, you're a multimillionaire for crying out loud. FFS, you could BUY a villa in Europe. One in each country.
- CanHasQBN0
Someone in Maryland won it. They did it. They beat the odds. They are the chosen ones. Lucky Lucky Lucky rich people. Will never have to show up for a day of work in their lives.
- mg330
- Ramanisky20
those poor co-workers who thought they had won and had legal claim to the prize are now fucked all together
- 20020
- prophetone0
at least they all get a discount on food where they work which is nice
- akrok0
if i would won, i wouldn't tell anyone.
- spot130
FYI: Buying more than 1 lottery tickets does not increase your odds of winning. You can buy 1 or 1000 tickets and your the odds stay exactly the same: 175711356 to 1. The lottery is truly a tax for people who can't do math.
- Dumbest thing ive ever read.CygnusZero4
- think about it, its truespot13
- Your odds for each number set individually stay the same. But since your number of set increase, so do your overall odds.404NotFound
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- spot130
If you buy 10 tickets you have 175,711,526 chances of not winning. So you have improved your chances of not winning from
99.99999943088540299368847359003... to 99.99999430885402993688473590032...
This represents an improvement of
.00000512203166455910240060177%
and your odds of winning stay the same