The powerball jackpot is up to $340 million, which is the second-biggest lottery jackpot in US history. The drawing is tonight. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 146,107,962. Tickets are $1 each, so why not just buy 146,107,962 of them? Pete Rose did just that.
You have a seven times better chance of becoming a saint and you're six times more likely to get elected president of the United States than winning the jackpot. Most mathematicians don't play - via the Strib.