# Professor Aaron Tenenbein estimates that the chances of winning the lottery are 1 in 300 million

1 Faculty News January 11, 2016 ![CBS News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031726.jpg?itok=XPqKNXWl)>

Excerpt from [CBS](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/01/11/powerball-jackpot-keeps-growing/) -- "NYU statistics professor [Aaron Tenenbein](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aaron-tenenbein) did the math and found there’s only a 1 in 300-million chance of winning it all. 'If you’re an average golfer, you have a better chance of getting two successive holes in one,' he told CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez."

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