The odds may be against you to win the Powerball’s staggering $1.3 billion jackpot on Wednesday night, but mathematicians say ...

The odds of winning a big Powerball, Mega Millions or Florida Lotto jackpot are almost incomprehensibly huge. Any way to ...

Figuring out the odds of winning the Powerball lottery draws upon a vein of applied mathematics known combinatorics, which deals with ways of arranging and distributing objects.

To win the largest lottery prize of the year so far, a Powerball ticket buyer has to overcome astronomical odds of 1 in 292.2 ...