The MegaMillions jackpot is now $265M, after nobody won it last night. Given that the odds of winning the JACKPOT are 1:175,711,536, this means that at first blush, you stand to make some bank. However, you need to account for a few other factors to determine how big the prize needs to for it to make sense to play MegaMillions, probabilistically ( Read more... )

Surprisingly, the BBC has the story, but no peep from the North American MSM.
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... it means you either haven't logged into your livejournal account if you have one, OR, you're not permitted to view my journal, which is friends-only, as of 12/04.

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