"Come on , come on, listen to the money talk"

[the_mcp]

Right down the hall from my office, four otherwise sane(?) software engineers are having a very intense, passionate argument over tonight's estimated $600 million Mega Millions jackpot (or whatever it's up to now). The crux of the argument? One of them insists that it would be possible -- and rational! -- for someone with $175,711,536 at their

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[dslartoo]

I recall reading or seeing on television once that a lottery syndicate DID actually do this for a very large jackpot some twenty or thirty years ago. Unfortunately my google-fu, usually so strong, is not turning up any positive links.

Still, I bet that was an interesting argument to listen in on....

cheers,
Phil