Here's some pretty solid analysis:
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports...src=burger_bar
My favorite part is where they show you what 1 quintillion pennies looks like next to the Empire State Building, and you can really see how impossible this is. Or actually, it's a picture of what the Empire State Building looks like next to a giant pile of 1 quintillion pennies.
Another tidbit:
Lastly, God forbid you've got 60 out of 60 right and are about to enter the final 4. Buffet said he would likely offer $10 Million to buy them out of their $1 Billion dollar payout.Another way to think about it: If all 317 million people in the U.S. filled out a bracket at random, you could run the contest for 290 million years, and there’d still be a 99 percent chance that no one had ever won.
I'd probably take the sure $10 Million rather than the off chance at $1 Billion.
Pretty ingenious publicity stunt though.
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