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Mega Millions $640 Million

  • sleeper
    sjmvsfscs08;1130534 wrote:Anyone who says the lottery is useless is an uptight fool. Who doesn't have a dollar of spare income to have some fun with? Just the trick my brain plays and the resulting smile that happens from imagining what I'd do (and who I'd do, for that matter) is well worth $1.
    That "trick" your brain plays is ignorance.
  • sleeper
    OSH;1130540 wrote:I'd rather spend a $1 on this lottery than a $1 at McDonald's.
    I'd rather put it in the bank and still have a dollar earning more dollars than waste it on a game that you won't win.
  • LJ
    gorocks99;1130301 wrote:Odds of winning with one ticket: 1 in 175,711,536 (0.000000569115%)
    Odds of winning with two unique tickets: 1 in 87,855,768 (0.000001138229%)
    Odds of winning with three unique tickets: 1 in 58,570,512 (0.000001707344%)
    Odds of winning with one thousand unique tickets: 1 in 175,712 (0.000569113%)
    Odds of winning with 0 tickets: INVALID

    Well, looks like I will be buying some tickets.
  • gorocks99
    Put it this way ... you have a 100% greater chance of winning if you buy two tickets instead of one ((0.000001138229%-0.000000569115%)/0.000000569115% = 1).

    You have an infinitely greater chance of winning if you buy one ticket instead of zero ((    0.000000569115%-0)/0 = error).

    Edit: LJ beat me to it.
  • power i
    My husband and I already got into an arguement about what we'd do with the money.
  • sleeper
    gorocks99;1130732 wrote:Put it this way ... you have a 100% greater chance of winning if you buy two tickets instead of one ((0.000001138229%-0.000000569115%)/0.000000569115% = 1).

    You have an infinitely greater chance of winning if you buy one ticket instead of zero ((    0.000000569115%-0)/0 = error).

    Edit: LJ beat me to it.
    Actually you have a zero percent chance of winning anything and a 100% chance of losing at least $1.
  • LJ
    I remember when a group of people from Westerville won the Powerball years ago. They interviewed one woman who had won and asked her what she was going to do with the money. She said "I'm gonna buy me a Harley and some new boobs!"
  • justincredible
    sleeper;1130748 wrote:Actually you have a zero percent chance of winning anything and a 100% chance of losing at least $1.
    Wrong. Learn to math.
  • gorocks99
    sleeper;1130748 wrote:Actually you have a zero percent chance of winning anything and a 100% chance of losing at least $1.
    You have a 0.000000569115% chance of winning the jackpot, and a 99.999943085% chance of not winning the jackpot, mathematically. Realistically, you have a 0% chance of winning and a 100% chance of not winning.

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  • Fred Flintstone
    gorocks99;1130756 wrote:You have a 0.000000569115% chance of winning the jackpot, and a 99.999943085% chance of not winning the jackpot, mathematically. Realistically, you have a 0% chance of winning and a 100% chance of not winning.
    Silly rounding
  • sleeper
    gorocks99;1130756 wrote:You have a 0.000000569115% chance of winning the jackpot, and a 99.999943085% chance of not winning the jackpot, mathematically. Realistically, you have a 0% chance of winning and a 100% chance of not winning.
    I don't live on technicalities. .000000000000000000000000000034% is 0% in the real world.
  • justincredible
    sleeper;1130789 wrote:I don't live on technicalities. .000000000000000000000000000034% is 0% in the real world.
    But what is 0.000000569115%?
  • LJ
    justincredible;1130793 wrote:But what is 0.000000569115%?
    Answer:

    >0
  • sleeper
    justincredible;1130793 wrote:But what is 0.000000569115%?
    0%
  • sleeper
    The fact is, I'll be a dollar richer than most of you come friday by simply placing it in my bank account.

    The poor get poorer, the rich get richer, one lotto at a time.
  • OneBuckeye
    sleeper;1130796 wrote:0%
    Tell that to people who have died in a plane crash, been struck by lightning etc...
  • justincredible
    Oh boy a dollar!
  • justincredible
    OneBuckeye;1130802 wrote:Tell that to people who have died in a plane crash, been struck by lightning etc...
    Boom. Roasted.

    Also, the people who are filthy rich from winning the lottery.
  • queencitybuckeye
    OneBuckeye;1130802 wrote:Tell that to people who have died in a plane crash
    Did, got no response.
  • dlazz
    But what if my dollar hits the Mega ball? I'd win $3 to your $1

    Flawed logic
  • justincredible
    queencitybuckeye;1130813 wrote:Did, got no response.
    Too soon.
  • OneBuckeye
    queencitybuckeye;1130813 wrote:Did, got no response.
  • sleeper
    OneBuckeye;1130802 wrote:Tell that to people who have died in a plane crash, been struck by lightning etc...
    You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning, in a plane, then crashing into the Artic where you will obtain clogged arteries from a diet of Seal blubber; and die from heart disease.
  • sleeper
    justincredible;1130805 wrote:Boom. Roasted.

    Also, the people who are filthy rich from winning the lottery.
    http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/stocks/why-lottery-winners-go-bankrupt-1301002181742/

    You are more likely to go bankrupt winning the lottery than you are filthy rich.
  • sjmvsfscs08
    dlazz;1130814 wrote:But what if my dollar hits the Mega ball? I'd win $3 to your $1

    Flawed logic
    This.