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  2. Just how unlikely is winning the lottery? - AOL

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    For Powerball, winners pick five different numbers from 1 to 69 for the white balls and one number between 1 and 26 for the red Powerball.To calculate the odds, there are 11,238,513 possible ...

  3. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    If the powerball is drawn from a pool of numbers different from the main lottery, the odds are multiplied by the number of powerballs. For example, in the 6 from 49 lottery, given 10 powerball numbers, then the odds of getting a score of 3 and the powerball would be 1 in 56.66 × 10, or 566.6 (the probability would be divided by 10, to give an ...

  4. 9 Ways to Win the Powerball: Everything You Should Know ... - AOL

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    Though the odds of winning the jackpot aren't great, the odds of winning the smallest award is much better at 1 in 38.32. 8 Ways to Win Powerball If You Don't Hit the Jackpot: The first way to win ...

  5. What Are My Actual Odds of Winning the Powerball? - AOL

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    Powerball is easy to play. And there are MILLIONS of good reasons to get in the game. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...

  6. Michael Shackleford - Wikipedia

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    Michael Shackleford (born May 23, 1965, in Pasadena, California, United States), also known as "The Wizard of Odds" (a title taken from Donald Angelini), [1] is an American mathematician and an actuary. He is best known for his professional analysis of the mathematics of the casino games.

  7. Wizard of odds - Wikipedia

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    Wizard of Odds may refer to: Michael Shackleford (born 1965), expert on the math behind casino games; Donald Angelini (1926–2000), Chicago gambling mobster;

  8. How hard is it to win the lottery? Odds to keep in mind as ...

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    In 2015, the Powerball lottery lengthened the odds of winning from 1 in 175.2 million to 1 in 292.2 million. Mega Millions followed two years later, lengthening the odds of winning the top prize ...

  9. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.