1/3 of a billion jackpot

I bought 8 tickets, and won $3. $5 for 3 days of day-dreaming of what I'm going to do with all that money is what I call cheap entertainment.
 
Won 4 bucks! Five dollar investment. Down a buck and like the above, I thought about what I would get with it. A lot of my friends lost out on good swag and vacations. I was paying off some friends school loans, paying off my friends parents house note so they can retire, starting college funds for my teacher friends kids, etc...
 
The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately 1 in 175 mil. If nobody had won yesterday, you assume the jackpot grows to something like $400+mil. You buy 175 million tickets and nobody else wins, you get 400+mil after taxes which, I know little on taxes but even 50/50 you still make 25 mil over a 25 year period, minus whatever you pay for the giant loan you just took out, which I'm sure takes you under. But I'm sure someone rich enough could do it and make some money.
 
Of course, two other people won last night (which isn't surprising, given $155 million in ticket sales), so, had you used that strategy before, your $175Million investment would have netted you an $111 Million payout over 25 years, thus losing present use of the money as well as taking a $64 Million hit over time. Or, you could take a $100 Million loss immediately, and $75 Million to chuck away at the next big pot.

Even if no one had won Friday, I think we can assume ticket sales in the $180-$200 Million range for a jackpot of $400 Million, making it likely there would be a couple of winners to split a $400 pot over 25 years or split a $250 pot immediately.

Anyone know what 175,999,999/176,000,000 raised to the 200 millionth power is? I get less than a 1/3 chance no one wins.

Genius investment plan. I wonder why lots of millionaires don't do that.
 
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