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Old 08-07-2005, 12:52 AM
kyro kyro is offline
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Default Powerball q

I feel dumb. I'm assuming I'm just missing something obvious. In Powerball, you pick 5 numbers ranging from 1-53 and one "Powerball" ranging from 1-42. If you get them all right, you win. Shouldn't the odds of winning be 1 in 53*52*51*50*49*42 ~ 14,463,212,400?

According to their website, it's 1 in 120,526,770.00
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