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The end result was 100,286.2 years of Powerball Simulator using quick picks. After previous runs of 1,000 years and 2,000 years that had similar results. First off, here's the deal when it comes that timeline -- Niagara Falls will have eroded itself into Lake Erie and will cease to exist. We will be in a period of glacier advance regardless of global warming. Constellations as we know them will no longer exist due to the movement of stars. We will likely have seen our first supervolanic eruption. If we are terraforming Mars, this is the time we could expect to have a breathable oxygen atmosphere. If we started playing the Powerball 100K years ago, we would have just started wearing clothes. As in literally, the idea of wearing clothes would have just come into being. Nuff said. Okay, now the hard numbers. Based on 100,286.2 years of playing the Powerball, we have played 10,429,761 games at an average ticket price of $1.62. We won the million twice. Twice in 100K+ years. That's pretty cool, but when you spend $20,859,522 on tickets, that doesn't quite cover your overall costs. The final totals see us winning $3,943,621, for a loss of $16,915,901, making each dollar spent worth only 19 cents. We won the basic $4 just under 300,000 times, which fits in with the every month plus change narrative in the past. In addition, we won the 10K a total of 24 times. 24 times in 100K years does not make a man rich. So, yeah, that's it. After my brower crashing at 89K years and a computer update shutdown interrupting the previous attempt at 92K years, we now know that even in 100,000 years you will never win the Powerball. That's pretty spectacular when you think about it...
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so what you're saying is that there's a chance
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Jan 15, 2016 20:24
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Yeah that's pretty spectacular. Voting thread 2
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Jan 15, 2016 20:24
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nice copy and paste
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symbolic posted:so what you're saying is that there's a chance Yep, pretty much in line with the 1 in 5M odds presented. I actually had a million dollar win in 3.4 years on the simulator with the system set to stop at 1M and Powerball winning. So it can happen...
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Jan 15, 2016 20:27
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A Powerball is something I put in the dishwasher (no, not my wife hurrr). So in conclusion, idgi.
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i mean duh on average you lose money playing the powerball for the simple reason that as a company they make more money than they give out tldr don't play the lottery
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Leather Daddy posted:nice copy and paste Yeah, literally from my Facebook account. Like I'm writing that up again...
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Gyra_Solune posted:tldr don't play the lottery gently caress you
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Jan 15, 2016 20:30
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i'm sure my lucky numbers will work better though
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every once in a while i go to bed with an itchy butthole and wake up in the morning with a really stinky finger
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jiharlequinade posted:i'm sure my lucky numbers will work better though The weird thing is 1,2,3,4,5 Powerball 6 won the million eight times in a 2,000 year play I did once. So there you go, that's the lucky combo.
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hey someone always ends up winning may as well be me rather than some old retirees donating it all to the human fund
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how many times did you win by not playing?
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Business Gorillas posted:how many times did you win by not playing? Based on what the numbers showed from this run, not once.
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acejackson42 posted:The weird thing is 1,2,3,4,5 Powerball 6 won the million eight times in a 2,000 year play I did once. So there you go, that's the lucky combo. have fun sharing that prize with the thousands of others playing those numbers
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Jan 15, 2016 20:34
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meh this thread is about my new username now
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Jan 15, 2016 20:38
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PBS Newshour posted:meh
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symbolic posted:you do realize this won't stop the "mr crapps" quip from dgsw, right yeah, i just like pbs newshour
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PBS Newshour posted:meh anime avatars are not worth any semblance of recognition
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Business Gorillas posted:anime avatars are not worth any semblance of recognition
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Okay now OP calculate the odds of being born with the right natural aptitudes to right family in the right economic bracket in the right country to live the kind of life you could get with winning a couple hundred million from the powerball?
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LoGH would probably be impossible to do live action
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What i'm saying is it's just chance all the way down with varying levels of denial that exist solely to keep us feeling like we have some semblance of control over the direction of our life
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pwned n00b
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ArbitraryC posted:Okay now OP calculate the odds of being born with the right natural aptitudes to right family in the right economic bracket in the right country to live the kind of life you could get with winning a couple hundred million from the powerball? vote trump
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Cry Havoc posted:have fun sharing that prize with the thousands of others playing those numbers Exactly. The hilarity that would result from that combination would be off the charts.
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ArbitraryC posted:Okay now OP calculate the odds of being born with the right natural aptitudes to right family in the right economic bracket in the right country to live the kind of life you could get with winning a couple hundred million from the powerball? That's literally heat death of the universe / quantum tunnelling of iron stars-level odds. I don't think SA has the super-super script designation to portray those odds.
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Crusty Nutsack posted:pwned n00b YOU DICK. Still, look at that return on the dollar. Christ almighty. EDIT: and I also crashed out at 80K and 90K. So give me 270K and we'll be all set! acejackson42 fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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The were THREE winners just YESTERDAY idiot
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Baba Ganoush posted:The were THREE winners just YESTERDAY idiot Yeah, which a simulator like this goes to show the improbabilty of something like that happening. It should be impossible and beyond unlikely, but people win the lottery all the drat time. Like, lotteries rarely carry over to the extent this Powerball did because people break the 1-in-5M odds to take the prize. 'You'll never win the Powerball' claims are based purely on the odds. This simulator shows that. And yet here we are with three winners. Idiot.
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Jan 15, 2016 21:06
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1 in 293,000,000 million is pretty self explanatory
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acejackson42 posted:Yeah, which a simulator like this goes to show the improbabilty of something like that happening. It should be impossible and beyond unlikely, but people win the lottery all the drat time. Like, lotteries rarely carry over to the extent this Powerball did because people break the 1-in-5M odds to take the prize. It just goes to show you that luck is more powerful than math.
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I've been thinking about having a priest bless my tickets with holy water for a while also
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Baba Ganoush posted:It just goes to show you that luck is more powerful than math. Baba Ganoush posted:I've been thinking about having a priest bless my tickets with holy water for a while also Is it not hilarious how true this is and how every single shenanigan out there is meaningless in the face of random possibility? Like that 1M win I had within three years... makes no sense in light of the odds but it happened and here we are. That's what I love about simulators like this... they're driven by pure random selection the same way most lotteries are and yet people still win all the time while these math projectors say 'nu uh, impossible'. Chaos, man... pure chaos.
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I shall simply purchase two tickets
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i'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a lottery ticket today
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hehe sucker
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Someone's getting yeasty
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