Powerball is $500M, are u playing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics
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lunchtoast
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I like these odds.
Good. Cause you were literally sucking the life out of this thread.
If I win, I will fund a new season of Firefly. It would have to be 100% CGI cause everyone is old and fat.
Well not everyone. Just Nathan Fillion.
anotherVegan
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Wish I had a time machine
eddie4
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yeah you can, but how do you know it's legit. i want a receipt!
that money they expect to get from the lottery is estimated and removed from the budget usually, so if they expect to get 500 mil out of a lottery they'll remove 500 mil from school/roads and use that elsewhere
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Darryl M R
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haha I guess this is true but if I could $2 right now online to get a ticket I would
perfectchaos007
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lunchtoast said:
I did okay all things considered
Money Spent $1,372,082
Money Won $1,131,797
Profit / Loss $-240,285
thoseAREmySHOES
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Exactly.
eddie4
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Happy 6,597th B-Day
eddie4
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http://www.powerball.com/powerball/winnums-text.txt
History of powerball numbers. If your combo has been drawn, it's highly unlikely that we will see that number pattern again.
History of powerball numbers. If your combo has been drawn, it's highly unlikely that we will see that number pattern again.
Randolph Freelander
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If your combo has not been drawn, it is equally as unlikely that we will see that number pattern.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Thinking about it.
If I ever did win a mega jackpot, I'd definitely invest a lot of it back into schools and help centers. Another of that to impoverished neighborhoods too. No one person honestly needs $500 million to themselves to live happily.
Gonna look for a program that can crunch these and figure out what combinations haven't been drawn yet.
If I ever did win a mega jackpot, I'd definitely invest a lot of it back into schools and help centers. Another of that to impoverished neighborhoods too. No one person honestly needs $500 million to themselves to live happily.
Randolph Freelander
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I did okay all things considered
Money Spent $1,372,082
Money Won $1,131,797
Profit / Loss $-240,285
6597 years. Longetivity, son.
Did you know.... if you took $2 per week and invested it for 6597 years, holding the S&P 500 to 10% annualized returns including dividends being reinvested (8% price growth + 2% dividend yield), you would add up to... actually, Excel can't even calculate the number. But I can tell you that you'd pass 1 trillion dollars just a few weeks into the 208th year. The challenge, of course, is living the 208 years, but whatever.
Gabriel_Logan
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Don't worry guys I'm going to win the big bucks from Elder Scrolls Online. You plebs keep your 50 million.
Glass Shark
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If I worked somewhere that had a lottery pool I would probably quit.
My office did a pool but I didn't put anything in.
They all keep walking by my office telling me that they aren't going to give me any money when they win.
Now, I know the odds are astronomically small, but can you imagine if they won? Every single person around me would be a millionaire without me. That would be soul crushing.
They all keep walking by my office telling me that they aren't going to give me any money when they win.
Now, I know the odds are astronomically small, but can you imagine if they won? Every single person around me would be a millionaire without me. That would be soul crushing.
NYCmetsfan
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no. That's not how it works (though many of those are less likely because they've changed the format to make it less likely you'll win)
TouchMyBox
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That's how they get you, dawg.
bootsthecat
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Curious, why did you resist? Adamantly anti-lottery? Too large of an investment? Dislike of forced involvement in a work group activity?
Reminds me of a recent event with a coworker, where they would not get involved with secret santa ($20 max, btw) the other ~20 of us were at a loss as to why this dude would not get with the (fun!) program.
lol, why didn't you join?
When they win, they're going to all buy diamond scepters and taught you with them.
Megalosaro
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My office of 12 just chipped in 5 dollars each.
MisterHero
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If I win I'm gonna buy $200 million in Nintendo stock
they still won't let me see NX
they still won't let me see NX
Nemesis121
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I wonder what $200m in MS stock would equate too, like 0.03%
CitizenCope
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I've got family and friends that play so I save a couple of bucks and still have a chance to get a piece of the pie.
Similar to how every time you shuffle a mixed standard deck of cards, the resultant order of the shuffled cards in the deck has almost certainly never existed before in the past. Except in this case, you are more likely to win powerball than you are to produce a card order that has been produced previously. Far more likely.
NYCmetsfan
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nah their are a lot more permutations for card shuffling than powerball
HyperCubed4
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I can't even begin to imagine what I would do with $500 million dollars. What would GAF do with that amount of money?
PseudoKirby
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yea but what if you were a member and got downgraded?!
Eighty Deuce
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If I win I'm building a real life outer heaven for veterans.
That's true in the sense that any number pattern is highly unlikely, I guess.
I'm just gonna keep going till I pick a winner. Someone's gotta win, why can't it be me?
TheAbsolution
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Just bought a ticket. I'm feeling lucky lol.
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