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Time since the publication of Isaac Newton's major work, the Principia

Time since the publication of Isaac Newton's major work, the Principia (337 y)

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Time since the publication of Isaac Newton's major work, the Principia (337 y)

  • is 1/10000 of Time since the start of the Stone Age (3.4 million y)...more
  • is 1/5 of Time since the birth of mathematician Hypatia (1,674 y)...more
  • is 2/5 of Time since the birth of Fibonacci (854 y)...more
  • is 4 x Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more

If this was a standard unit ...

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