{"613271":{"#nid":"613271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lottery Mathematics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech mathematician Lew Lefton explained the odds of winning the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot. The drawing on Tuesday, Oct. 23, turned up a winning ticket sold in South Carolina. But as Lefton said many times in many venues, it won\u0026#39;t be you.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELefton\u0026#39;s first appeared on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CBG3gqGFJZ8\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech YouTube\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and then at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/video\/local-video\/mathematician-weighs-odds-winning-mega-millions-billion-jackpot\/CIpJWJGyQTB5OcxkfmxjYM\/?fbclid=IwAR1OtRmxRRCVM_8OrG1HgVx8vDHLMz98avQn-7Ag7sCuOdHonFVSDMNn_DM\u0022\u003EAtlanta Journal Constitution\u0026#39;s coverage\u003C\/a\u003E.Those were\u0026nbsp;followed by guest spots on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CTVNewsChannel\/videos\/305140713406561\/\u0022\u003ECanadian TV\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GTSciences\/videos\/340660856689020\/\u0022\u003EBBC World Service\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"External News: Georgia Tech mathematician Lew Lefton explains the odds of winning the $1.6 billion  pot"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"External News: Georgia Tech mathematician Lew Lefton explains the odds of winning the $1.6 billion prize"}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-10-25 14:02:30","changed_gmt":"2018-10-25 14:21:39","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613273":{"id":"613273","type":"image","title":"The lottery as explained by Lew Lefton","body":null,"created":"1540477262","gmt_created":"2018-10-25 14:21:02","changed":"1540477262","gmt_changed":"2018-10-25 14:21:02","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233475","name":"2018 Lew Lefton on lottery.PNG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Lew%20Lefton%20on%20lottery.PNG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Lew%20Lefton%20on%20lottery.PNG","mime":"image\/png","size":745928,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20Lew%20Lefton%20on%20lottery.PNG?itok=33BLpcek"}}},"media_ids":["613273"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"171362","name":"lottery odds"},{"id":"175670","name":"Lew Lefton"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}