Reminder Mega Million $370m+

"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message news:...

"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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I haven't played it yet, but thinking I could afford a buck for a shot.
I looked up the odds at 1:175,711,536. 12 states total participate, so
if anyone from ROFF hits it, best not to advertise to start a ****ing
contest. ;-)
fwiw,
-tom


my personal view of these things is that I wouldn't consider betting at
the racetrack on a 12,000,000-1 shot, even if it was an overlay, so I
never get tempted to play lotteries. YMMV, of course, and so, good luck
to you and all who do venture into the pool!!
Tom

Agree, I'll donate $1.oo for qty: 1 ticket, but won't put any more into
it, and that's if the pot is over $300k.
The odds in reality:
We have a two mile long accelerator. Picture 3x5 cards stacked together,
side by side along the two mile long accelerator, wrapping around and
stacked along the opposite side of the accelerator as well. A total of
4-miles of stacked 3x5 cards.
Now I'm getting into my car, driving along the accelerator and viewing all
the cards stacked nice and neatly together. Somewhere along the
accelerator, I stop the car and pull "one" 3x5 card from the pile at
random. That would be the odds of winning the lotto. But that "one"
card from the astronomical odds could be worth $370k.
fwiw,
-tom

Woops, meant to write $370m,. We think too much in terms of thousands "k"
here, $300k would just be a drop in the bucket and not worth my buck.
fwiw,
-tom

"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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Woops, meant to write $370m,. We think too much in terms of thousands "k"
here, $300k would just be a drop in the bucket and not worth my buck.
fwiw,
-tom

Your ability to work with numbers seems to match mine.

Are you a rocket scientist, or something? :~^ )

Op

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:04:12 -0800, "Tom Nakashima"
wrote:


"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message news:...

"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
news:ZdlHh.97$jf.1@trndny04...

"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
...
I haven't played it yet, but thinking I could afford a buck for a shot.
I looked up the odds at 1:175,711,536. 12 states total participate, so
if anyone from ROFF hits it, best not to advertise to start a ****ing
contest. ;-)
fwiw,
-tom


my personal view of these things is that I wouldn't consider betting at
the racetrack on a 12,000,000-1 shot, even if it was an overlay, so I
never get tempted to play lotteries. YMMV, of course, and so, good luck
to you and all who do venture into the pool!!
Tom

Agree, I'll donate $1.oo for qty: 1 ticket, but won't put any more into
it, and that's if the pot is over $300k.
The odds in reality:
We have a two mile long accelerator. Picture 3x5 cards stacked together,
side by side along the two mile long accelerator, wrapping around and
stacked along the opposite side of the accelerator as well. A total of
4-miles of stacked 3x5 cards.
Now I'm getting into my car, driving along the accelerator and viewing all
the cards stacked nice and neatly together. Somewhere along the
accelerator, I stop the car and pull "one" 3x5 card from the pile at
random. That would be the odds of winning the lotto. But that "one"
card from the astronomical odds could be worth $370k.
fwiw,
-tom

Woops, meant to write $370m,. We think too much in terms of thousands "k"
here, $300k would just be a drop in the bucket and not worth my buck.

Um, lemmee guess: you're the head of the Economics Dept. there at
Stanford, right?

Send me $370k, and I'll send ya a buck,
R
fwiw,
-tom