{"659811":{"#nid":"659811","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mega Millions jackpot winning ticket bought in Illinois","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lewlefton.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELew Lefton,\u003C\/a\u003E College of Sciences assistant dean for information technology, associate vice president for research computing, and a mathematician, receives lots of media calls\u0026nbsp;whenever a national lottery approaches record-breaking numbers. This time he was interviewed by NewsNation about the odds of winning the recent $1.337 billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot, won by one person in Illinois during the July 30th drawing. Lefton explains that those who bought tickets and didn\u0026#39;t\u0026nbsp;win shouldn\u0026#39;t take it personally;\u0026nbsp;it\u0026#39;s simply math.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;That\u0026rsquo;s just the reality. The numbers are only going to pick 1 in 300 million,\u0026rdquo; he\u0026nbsp;said. \u0026ldquo;A lot of people have no idea what that really looks like.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-08-01 17:15:06","changed_gmt":"2022-08-01 17:15:06","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/business\/your-money\/mega-millions-jackpot-winning-ticket-bought-in-illinois\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"175670","name":"Lew Lefton"},{"id":"190992","name":"Mega Millions lottery"},{"id":"171362","name":"lottery odds"},{"id":"169090","name":"lottery"}],"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":""}}}