No one asked what I was doing with 120,526,770 records

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>:
[...]
> Unless the powerball works differently than most multiball lotteries, I
> suspect you're wrong.
>
> [ reads powerball.com ]
>
> Nope.  It's 53*52*51*50*49 * 42
>
> Why are you dividing?
>
> The first five balls come from a descending pool of available balls;
> the last one from a separate pool.
>
> So, the correct numeric answer, actually, is 14,463,212,400, rather
> than what I posted before.  But still a vastly larger number than
> yours.
[...]

You want _combinations_, not _permutations_.  Unless this powerball
requires that you pick the numbers in the _same_order_, you need to
divide by 5! for a 5-ball game.

    14,463,212,400 / 5! = 120,526,770

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