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Old 01-12-2016, 01:39 AM  
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Highly doubt that it would take 10 years to print since the odds of winning are now 1:295 million. For your printing estimation to be correct, for powerball to break even, they would have to sell 147.5 million tickets at $2 each. Surely they have done that already in 1 week.

Well I guess if you did it from one location but I'm fairly certain you can buy them, in bulk, using other methods.
I was reading something pretty interesting about the logistics of printing 296 million different number sets, the author did claim it would take 9 years for printing them via current lotto printing. I'll try and dig it up.
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