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 Even though
today, Monday, March 17, is Saint Patrick's Day, some of you have been
celebrating it for the past two weekends. Today
might be a mental health day for some of you.
Many
Americans claim to be Irish (~32 million) with many more on St. Patrick's
Day.
That's
a lot of Irish.
That's
more than true Irishman that live on the island of Ireland (~7 million).
I bet
many "Irish" Americans do not know that March 17 is the traditional
death date of Saint Patrick, not his birth date nor the date that Patrick
returned to Ireland in the 5th century, according to tradition, to convert
the pagan Irish to Christianity.
Not
sure what Patrick would think about what his day of celebration has become
might be leaning more pagan than Christian.
Nevertheless,
if the roughly 80 million Irishmen around the world all submitted a unique
bracket, they would collectively still only have a 1 in 250 billion chance of
picking a perfect bracket.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph that sounds like really bad odds.
Are
they though? They just sound like really
big numbers. Nobody knows how big those numbers are.
 Here is some context:
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Irish
in Ireland
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5,000,000
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million
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Irish
in the USA
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32,000,000
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Irish
in the World
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70,000,000
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Odds
of winning Mega Millions
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302,575,350
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Odds
of winning Powerball
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292,201,338
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Elon
Musk Wealth
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326,400,000,000
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billion
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Total
US Wealth
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106,000,000,000,000
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trillion
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Total
World Wealth
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454,000,000,000,000
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trillion
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Odds
of Perfect Bracket
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9,223,372,036,854,770,000
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quintillion
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Yikes! Who could win with those odds?
Well,
you do not need to be perfect to win. Just the least worst.
So,
put that green beer down for a breath and submit some Madness of March Pools.
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