If Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched (40 y) was a standard unit ...
Time since earliest wheeled vehicles (4,000 y)...more would be 100 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since the birth of Hero of Alexandria (2,014 y)...more would be 50 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since the death of Shakespeare (406 y)...more would be 10 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since the first iron steamship crossed the English Channel (202 y)...more would be 5 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since the first passenger steam railway service (199 y)...more would be 5 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since the publication of Volume 1 of Marx's Das Kapital (157 y)...more would be 4 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since the birth of physicist Marie Curie (157 y)...more would be 4 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since introduction of the first mass-produced helicopter (Sikorsky R-4) (80 y)...more would be 2 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Lifespan of human being (80 y)...more would be 2 x Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Time since first Tesla Model S launched (10 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
Lifespan of rat (2 y)...more would be 1/20 of Time since first Apple Macintosh Computer launched
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