There is some big lottery money up for grabs.

Monday night’s Powerball jackpot is up over $800 million, and Tuesday night’s Mega Millions is over $1.1 billion.

As of this writing, this makes these two jackpots the 8th and 12th biggest lottery jackpots in American history. Many Americans will buy tickets to both lotteries, and if you’re wondering what the odds are that you’ll win both, the answer is … 

… 88,419,171,721,274,107,150 to 1.

One qualification on that number: It’s AI generated. My calculator was giving me the “e” symbol. Thank goodness for AI.

By the way, that number spelled out, is eighty-eight quintillion, four hundred nineteen quadrillion, one hundred seventy-one trillion, seven hundred twenty-one billion, two hundred seventy-four million, one hundred seven thousand, one hundred fifty.

To give some semblance of how big that number is – and again, thank you AI! – consider …

Mind, blown

• If you bought a lotto ticket every second, it would take 2.8 billion years to cover all the potential winning combinations. Put another way: The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
• If you’re Einstein-esqe, we can convert this number to meters, and then convert it to light-years, which would be 9,346 light-years. To give some idea of what that number means, if we built a spaceship capable of traveling 90% of the speed of light – roughly 603 million MPH — it would take over 10,000 years to make the journey.
• Rough estimate: There have been 108 billion human beings in all of history. If every single human being, from the dawn of humanity, bought 819,000 tickets, we’d close in on covering every possible combination of winning numbers.
• There are 200,000 times more lottery combinations than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
• This 88 quintillion number is estimated to be about 12.5 times larger than the amount of grains of sand on Earth.
• Take all the water in the Earth’s oceans by gallons, multiply it by 275, and there’s that 88 quintillion number staring back atcha.
• Good luck!

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