Saturday, March 18, 2006

March Madness

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure there are Nine quintillion two hundred twenty three quadrillion three hundred seventy two trillion thirty six billion eight hundred fifty four million seven hundred seventy five thousand eight hundred and eight possible ways to fill out a bracket sheet for the NCAA Tournament.

For those of you who don't like to read long numbers, that's 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.

For those of you who don't like to look at long numbers, that's a lot of combinations.

For those of you who don't like to think about it, http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball

(I'm pretty sure that number is correct, if I'm wrong, please let me know where I made a mistake)

2 comments:

Genki na Pengin said...

I fill mine in with smiley faces. Does your calculation include that approach?

Scott said...

There's always something that we actuaries forget to take into consideration that the lawyers catch us on.