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01-21-2014, 03:09 PM | |
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Berkshire Hathaway and Quicken to payout $1 billion for perfect NCAA bracket
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Dan Gilbert's Quicken Loans are partnering to award anyone who fills out a perfect 2014 Men's NCAA Tournament bracket with $1 billion.
The prize will be paid out in 40 annual installments of $25 million. If there's more than one winner they'll have to share. The winner or winners can also take or split up an immediate $500 million lump sum payment. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/warre...#ixzz2r4Mfpu1k |
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01-21-2014, 08:01 PM | #16 |
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01-21-2014, 08:02 PM | #17 |
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Well this should settle once and for all if civilization ever learns how to travel back in time.
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01-21-2014, 08:31 PM | #18 |
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01-21-2014, 08:40 PM | #19 |
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The funny thing is I work for a BH company and we aren't allowed to have any office pools, March Madness, SB, World Series, nothing. It's considered gambling.
This isn't the same thing but I find it ironic anyway, so does everyone that found out about this today in the office. |
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01-21-2014, 08:42 PM | #20 |
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You are absolutely correct. It's actually 2^67 not 2^65, I wrote down the left column correctly for each but wrote down 2 bits instead of 4 bits for the four play in games like I should have. Number of games played should equal number of bits of possibility....silly careless errors!
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01-21-2014, 09:06 PM | #21 |
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These contests never ask you to pick the play-in game winners. The reason is simple, the time between selection sunday and the playin games is too short, they want to give people as much time as possible to enter their contest, so they just give you the option to pick the winner of the play-in game, whoever that is.
So, you start out at 2^63. If you want to throw out the possibility of a 15 or 16 seed winning, then its 2^55, which is 1 in 36 quadrillion.
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01-21-2014, 09:09 PM | #22 | |
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Not saying you are lying, I just think you mis-remembered it or are mistaken.
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01-21-2014, 09:27 PM | #25 |
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Very funny, but it was pure dumb luck as I admitted. College bball is not really a huge thing for me.. more so than pros but still not something I have ever bothered to keep up with fanatically.
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01-21-2014, 10:58 PM | #27 |
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Best bracket I did was 87 went 29-3 in 1st round. Finished 2nd cause I picked SU (my team) instead of Indiana. 2nd place bought a nice dinner with the wife. First would have bought a trip to hawaii. Not too agonizing watching my team and 1000's of dollars gone with a Keith Smart jumper. That was the worst I had ever hurt from sports. Until the Chief's last game and I had no financial interest in the Chief's game.
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01-21-2014, 10:59 PM | #28 |
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