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You know it's tough when we need a math professor to figure it out. thank you for joining us this morning. break it down for us. we know we start with 64 teams. what are all the calculations. >> well, if someone is just guessing, you've got to pick 63 games correctly. that's basically like sitting down with a coin and flipping heads 63 times in a row. the chances of that is 1 in 9 quinn till january. >> professor, that's a made up number. so let's try to keep it serious here. my son maid up that -- made up that number a couple years ago. please continue. >> well, your son's quite bright. to pu...

I thought i had a fabulous childhood. i mean, i would sometimes get bored and my mother would say, it's important to be bored. you're giving your brain a rest. >> reporter: his jamaican-born mother is a family therapist and his english father, a math professor. gladwell says being biracial and feeling like an outsider gives him a perspective. >> we moved to england and moved to canada where we were outsiders and i moved to america where i'm kind of an outsider. i feel like i've constantly been in the situation of shaking my head and thinking, this is a strange place. >> reporter: gladwell find...

30 or more hours a week. he says his small business can't afford that. so he's cutting hours for 50 of his workers. >> losing five or six hours a week, you know, that's $50 a week or a couple hundred a month. that's a car payment. >> reporter: we spoke to almost 20 small businesses and other entities across the country. almost all said that because of the new law, they'd be cutting back hours for some employees. >> anytime you see, that's on. >> reporter: at st. petersburg college in florida, 250 part-time professors has had their hours reduced. >> it has been the hardest decision i've had to ...

Offer somewhere else for a lot more money. >> and she might, but she's a tenured professor, so they're going to go through the process. she'll have an opportunity to respond. >> it will be difficult to terminate her. >> why will b it be difficult to terminate her. >> i understand that. short of murder, they can -- for doing something like this, you can be pushed out, can you? >> yes, she can. it's a very clear policy violation. it's also an issue of judgment. this is intuitively wrong. >> has she had a history of doing this before? >> i haven't read that. >> you think this was a set up hoping ...

That jackpot could still go higher before the drawing. it is wednesday, november 28th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good wednesday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm paula faris. this is going to be the day that changes our lives forever because we are going to win. >> by "we," you mean? >> you and i. each going to give $1 to the cause. split the ticket. >> $20, $20. >> we'll hear what a math professor has say about playing the lottery in a moment. after this half hour, we're all one day closer to the fiscal cliff. what, 34 days now? president obama is...