Let Warren Buffet's old $1 billion offer for a perfect March Madness bracket remind you how impossible that is

Leave it to a billionaire to always make a bet they know they can win.

We don't yet know if Warren Buffett is still offering Berkshire Hathaway employees $1 billion or $1 million a year for life or whatever if they put together a perfect bracket this season.

But you know what we do know? Perfect brackets. Folks. They're impossible to do.

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It could technically happen, sure. Someone could technically put together the perfect bracket. But the chances of it happening are one in 9 quintillion if you choose randomly. If you actually cram and try and use your knowledge to put a bracket together, your odds actually increase to one in 120 billion.

So, sure. There's a chance. But let's be honest — Buffett is keeping that money in his pocket. ur bracket gets busted by the time the first games are over on Thursday.

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Warren Buffet's $1 billion perfect bracket March Madness offer is impossible

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