Is That A Big Number?

If Time since first Model T Ford launched (116 y) was a standard unit ...

Time since the end of the Pleistocene geologic epoch (11,700 y)...more would be 100 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the earliest farming (11,500 y)...more would be 100 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since building of the Great Pyramid of Giza / Cheops / Khufu (4,580 y)...more would be 40 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the birth of Archimedes (2,300 y)...more would be 20 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the birth of Eratosthenes (2,299 y)...more would be 20 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since invention of the printing press (584 y)...more would be 5 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the birth of Leonardo da Vinci (572 y)...more would be 5 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the birth of Shakespeare (460 y)...more would be 4 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the birth of Galileo (457 y)...more would be 4 x Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the birth of computer scientist Grace Hopper (118 y)...more would be about as big as Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since the birth of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (114 y)...more would be about as big as Time since first Model T Ford launched

Time since first Apple ][ computer launched (47 y)...more would be 2/5 of Time since first Model T Ford launched

Period of Saturn's orbit (29.5 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since first Model T Ford launched

Period of Ceres's orbit (4.6 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since first Model T Ford launched

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