Urban legend or reality? Useful either way

Among the many common things in our lives that lack names is the usually anonymous and undocumented meditation, fulmination or info briefing you get from friends or coworkers. This just in:

Awesome odds.  Check it from start to finish!

The odds of winning the Florida lottery are 
1 in 22,957,480. 

The odds of winning the Powerball is 
1 in 175,223,510.

The odds of winning Mega Millions is 
1 in 258,890,850. 

The odds of a disk drive failing in any given month are roughly one in 36. 
The odds of two different drives failing in the same month are roughly one in 36 squared, or 1 in about 1,300. 
The odds of three drives failing in the same month is 36 cubed or 1 in 46,656. 

The odds of seven different drives failing in the same month (like what happened at the IRS when they received a letter asking about emails targeting conservative and pro-Israeli groups) is 37 to the 7th power = 1 in 78,664,164,096. (that's over 78 Billion)

In other words, the odds are greater that you will win the Florida Lottery 342 times than having those seven IRS hard drives crashing in the same month. 

Now, if you don't believe the IRS is corrupt to the core, you definitely need to get a grip on reality!

I don't see it at snopes.com or about.com, so no way to verify -- but if the figures aren't accurate, the point and overall thesis certainly is. This did turn up -- what is it?

http://www.fastnote.com/note/76499

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