Showing posts with label march madness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label march madness. Show all posts

Friday, March 29, 2013

March Madnessssss (with 18 s's at the end)

Unlike 98% of America right now, I am one of the few who does not have an NCAA Bracket filled out. I don't follow sports at all really and I hope you all forgive me for that.

BUT I am a huge geek when it comes to numbers and crap. So I was having a discussion with my room mate about the bracket and wondered if anyone had ever had a perfect prediction before. He said probably not very likely and I thought well there are so many people playing every year its bound to happen. Little did I think about the number of teams.

So I looked up the odds and almost dropped my phone when I saw the unlikely hood that you would ever get a perfect bracket predicted. Take a second to guess. I thought perhaps 1 in 5,000,000 or maybe even 1 in 50,000,000. I would have even considered 1 in 5,000,000,000. But I was so wrong.

The odds are 1 in 9.2 QUINTILLION. Thats 9 with 18  0's after it. The actual number is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808