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Physics and how much cash you would need to carry. 5 ticket combos per form and there are comb(69, 5) x 26 or 292,201,338 possible combinations meaning you wou
by protomyth 11y ago
Physics and how much cash you would need to carry.
5 ticket combos per form and there are comb(69, 5) x 26 or 292,201,338 possible combinations meaning you would need to fill out 58,440,268 powerball forms (the last with only 3 combos on it).
At this point acquiring 58+ million forms is going to be a bit of a problem, followed by building the machine to fill out all the forms, and finally having to buy each set of tickets for $10 each (except, of course, the last form costing $6). I am pretty sure going from place to place as they run out of ticket rolls will also make it a bit difficult.
- funkyy 11y agoDont you think if you would spend this kind of money you could go straight to the lottery and get them to manage this? At worst you could get your own lottery shop, hire few folks and just print the tickets. If you have this kind of money, surely you can hire few helpers.
- protomyth 11y agoWell, given the amount of tickets, I doubt it. Let's just say you found out nobody won on Saturday night and started your plan right then. It takes about 10 seconds to slide the card in and get a ticket, but let's be generous and say you can do a 5 number card every second. That's 58,440,268 seconds or 676 days 9 hours 24 minutes 28 seconds which is a bit beyond the limited window of Saturday night to Wednesday night. This does not count consumables, consumable reloading, or possible break down of the machine. It would take well over 200+ machines to make the deadline at 1 per second or 2,000+ machines for 10 seconds per ticket.
- irishcoffee 11y agoYes, you can do this.
- protomyth 11y agoHow can I buy 292,201,338 tickets?