Few ways to improve your odds for record $700M Powerball

Articles on Reuters and the Associated Press about Powerball, which has soared to more than $800 million, the largest U.S. Lottery jackpot ever, quotes Jeffrey Miecznikowski, associate professor of biostatistics in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, who compared the odds of winning, one in 292 million, to counting the drops of water in the ocean, or grains of sand in the world. “We can imagine those things. It’s near impossible,” he said. The articles appeared in more than 1,500 print, television and radio news outlets around the world, including The New York Times, ABC News, England’s Mirror, Fortune magazine, The Washington Post, Salon, Yahoo News and U.S. News & World Report.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-powerball-idUSKBN0UL0L720160108

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/01/07/us/07reuters-usa-powerball.html?_r=0

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ways-improve-odds-record-700m-powerball-36150841

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/powerball-lottery-jackpot-rolls-over-7137587

http://fortune.com/2016/01/08/powerball-record-700-million/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/few-ways-to-improve-your-odds-for-record-700m-powerball/2016/01/08/003fd888-b5d1-11e5-8abc-d09392edc612_story.html