January 24, 2007

Powerball drawing for $240,000,000

Tonight’s Powerball drawing is for $240,000,000. A single winner opting for the lump payment will take home $114,000,000 – or 47 percent of the winnings.

I have put together a table of odds. On the left are the odds of winning various Powerball amounts according to the Colorado Lottery Web site. On the right are a few odds oddities I found at www.funny2.com. I see no problem throwing out a few of these over watercooler chit-chat, but please don’t go basing research proposals off this stuff.

 Entire jackpot1 in 146,107,962 1 in 20,000,000Becoming a saint
 $200,0001 in…

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