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GiveFive

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Jul 19, 2017, 7:19 am

We all know how long MegaMillions and PowerBalls odds are. (Mega's will soon be even longer)

But do players appreciate/understand just how long they really are? I know I didn't until last night.

I saw a guy on TV who was talking about the failure of Republican Senators in The U.S. Senate to replace Obamacare. During the conversation with the TV show host, he made the following statement; "Do you know how long a trillion seconds is? It's 31,000 years."

MM and PB's odds aren't a trillion to one, (not yet anyway) but now that I know how many years make up a trillion seconds, I don't think I'll be playing PB and MM very much. G5

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Jul 19, 2017, 8:58 am

I stopped playing those two long ago. I play the games with lower odds that also have attractive jackpots. I'd be more than happy with 350K or so. However, when the jp gets close to a half billion I must admit I do buy ONE ticket. lol

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Jul 19, 2017, 9:22 am

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jul 19, 2017
We all know how long MegaMillions and PowerBalls odds are. (Mega's will soon be even longer)

But do players appreciate/understand just how long they really are? I know I didn't until last night.

I saw a guy on TV who was talking about the failure of Republican Senators in The U.S. Senate to replace Obamacare. During the conversation with the TV show host, he made the following statement; "Do you know how long a trillion seconds is? It's 31,000 years."

MM and PB's odds aren't a trillion to one, (not yet anyway) but now that I know how many years make up a trillion seconds, I don't think I'll be playing PB and MM very much. G5

1 year = 31,556,926 seconds!

1,000,000,000,000 seconds = 31,709.792 calendar years

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Jul 19, 2017, 10:54 am

Sometimes I find it helpful to look at things in a different perspective.

Example: a million dollars may sound like a lot...10 hundred thousand...ahh not so much !

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Quote: Originally posted by haymaker on Jul 19, 2017
Sometimes I find it helpful to look at things in a different perspective.

Example: a million dollars may sound like a lot...10 hundred thousand...ahh not so much !

Or looked at another way: a million is a thousand thousand. If you had 1 million dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, you'd run out of money in less than 3 years.
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Jul 19, 2017, 8:39 pm

Quote: Originally posted by EdG1955 on Jul 19, 2017
Or looked at another way: a million is a thousand thousand. If you had 1 million dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, you'd run out of money in less than 3 years.

Now if you spent $1,000 a week, that $1 million would last you over 19 YEARS.
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Jul 19, 2017, 11:51 pm

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jul 19, 2017
We all know how long MegaMillions and PowerBalls odds are. (Mega's will soon be even longer)

But do players appreciate/understand just how long they really are? I know I didn't until last night.

I saw a guy on TV who was talking about the failure of Republican Senators in The U.S. Senate to replace Obamacare. During the conversation with the TV show host, he made the following statement; "Do you know how long a trillion seconds is? It's 31,000 years."

MM and PB's odds aren't a trillion to one, (not yet anyway) but now that I know how many years make up a trillion seconds, I don't think I'll be playing PB and MM very much. G5

By 1 trillion do you mean the correct way (1,000,000,000,000,000,000/ One Million Million Million) or the American way (1,000,000,000,000; One Million Million)?

Anyway, if you play MM or PB for the odds, you're doing it wrong. There are plenty of games that offer better odds, better payouts, and often a cheaper price. You play the big two solely for the chance to completely change your life, odds be dammed.

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Quote: Originally posted by Kingofearth on Jul 19, 2017
By 1 trillion do you mean the correct way (1,000,000,000,000,000,000/ One Million Million Million) or the American way (1,000,000,000,000; One Million Million)?

Anyway, if you play MM or PB for the odds, you're doing it wrong. There are plenty of games that offer better odds, better payouts, and often a cheaper price. You play the big two solely for the chance to completely change your life, odds be dammed.

odds be dammed.

But-the-0dds-can't-be-so-conveniently-dammed....lol

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GiveFive

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Jul 20, 2017, 6:51 am

Quote: Originally posted by Kingofearth on Jul 19, 2017
By 1 trillion do you mean the correct way (1,000,000,000,000,000,000/ One Million Million Million) or the American way (1,000,000,000,000; One Million Million)?

Anyway, if you play MM or PB for the odds, you're doing it wrong. There are plenty of games that offer better odds, better payouts, and often a cheaper price. You play the big two solely for the chance to completely change your life, odds be dammed.

It's impossible for me to be doing it wrong. I aint playin' MM/PB. G5

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Jul 23, 2017, 11:47 am

Even if there was a huge game with 1 trillion to one odds, it would still be way too easy for players in certain states like California to win it.
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Jul 24, 2017, 10:43 am

so if you were to fill in a coupon every second to cover every combination on powerball how long would it take to have coupons covering every combination?

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