$1.4 billion Powerball jackpot

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/11/ ... kpot-win-guarantee/

The jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing of the Powerball lottery is now estimated at $1.5 billion, the highest U.S. payoff ever.

Doing the math, that means there are 292,201,338 different combinations of numbers you could pick.

At $2 a pop, you'd need almost $590 million to buy every ticket combination, which would bring you a tidy little profit approaching $1 billion in the current scenario. But finding the money would't be the hard part — the logistics of buying 292 million lottery tickets would.

With a lottery ticket machine running constantly, it would take nearly a decade to print all of those tickets, assuming a print rate of one ticket every second. There's just a few dozen hours before the drawing (and some states cut off ticket purchases hours before). Even if you had 10 machines going at the same time, it would still take a year of printing.

今天午饭，大家就忙着聊这$1.5 billion了

在米弟的朋友们，有没买？

中奖的可能性比被雷劈的可能性还小啊！

我家附近的超市里可以买，今天去买菜看到排长龙，都排到超市外面去了

国内的朋友托我买100注，照这样的趋势，到明天晚上开奖前估计要到16亿了

凑个热闹，好玩儿

好像是前年，mega millions也是积攒了大数额奖，开奖前Wawa等小超市排队买彩票，闹猛得很

这次比上次数额更大，大家更是要轧闹猛去

今天买了两张，后悔了，万一中奖了咋办，不能匿名领奖，必须实名。很多人中了奖家破人亡啊

这个多简单啊！捐给藤校啊！说吧，你家子子孙孙想去哈弗还是耶鲁？随便挑一个！

One of three winners of the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot won with a ticket given to her as a gift by her employer — businessman and philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz, according to Rechnitz spokesman Joshua Nass.

The apparent winner, who has not yet been publically identified, is reportedly an employee of Park Avenue Healthcare & Wellness Center in Pomona. The manager of the nursing facility was not immediately available for comment. Rechnitz has not yet responded to a phone call or text message from the Journal.

On Tuesday, Nass said, Rechnitz bought just under 18,000 Powerball tickets (at $2 each), giving one to each of his employees and residents.

Fox26 News reported on an employer who generously bought 15,000 lottery tickets for employees and residents at 80 healthcare facilities prior to Wednesday's drawing for the $1.5 billion Powerball drawing.

Well one of those tickets turned out to be a winner in the Southern California community of Chino Hills!

There were three winners of the Powerball drawing, so that record setting payout will be split three ways.

The company has confirmed the winner is a nurse at one of their facilities but would not confirm which facility or the identity of the employee.