Sunday, January 10, 2016

We're going to need more digits for this Powerball



First of all, you didn't win the $949.8 million Powerball drawing last night. Sorry!

Given that, the next jackpot could reach an estimated $1.3 billion, lottery officials told ABC News.

And given that (again), there aren't enough digits to note this on the lottery ad on St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue, as these photos by EVG Powerball correspondent Steven show...



According to someone who knows math and stuff, there's a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning the Powerball's grand prize.
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5 comments:

  1. xootrmanJanuary 10, 2016 at 3:41 PM

    Am I a lone voice when I say that I find it obscene to have such a stupendous single (possibly) winner. Somehow a few hundred winners getting a few million each seems so much more healthy. Many smiling faces, not just one.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2016 at 6:28 PM

    Is it just me, or does that look like three 6's upside down?

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  3. Scuba DivaJanuary 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM

    Ar 6:28 PM, Anonymous spewed...

    Is it just me, or does that look like three 6's upside down?

    It is three 6's upside down.

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  4. chris flashJanuary 11, 2016 at 1:22 AM

    The purpose of the lottery being permitted as of the 1960s was to fund schools, roads, bridges and other infrastructure so that tolls and taxes did not have to increase, yet the opposite has occurred.

    To date, I have yet to hear of ANY audit of the lottery scam and WHERE the money goes.....

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2016 at 9:23 AM

    @xootrman, the socialist country you dream of is north of here.

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