Time since invention of the printing press

Time since invention of the printing press (584 y)

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If Time since invention of the printing press (584 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Time since the end of the Pleistocene geologic epoch (11,700 y)...more would be 20 x Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since the earliest farming (11,500 y)...more would be 20 x Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since the birth of Alexander the Great (2,379 y)...more would be 4 x Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since the birth of Archimedes (2,300 y)...more would be 4 x Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since the birth of Eratosthenes (2,299 y)...more would be 4 x Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since the birth of Einstein (145 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since the publication of Einstein's theory of Special Relativity (119 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since the birth of computer scientist Grace Hopper (118 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since invention of the printing press
  • Time since first Model T Ford launched (116 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since invention of the printing press
  • Period of Saturn's orbit (29.5 y)...more would be 1/20 of Time since invention of the printing press
  • Period of Jupiter's orbit (11.86 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since invention of the printing press

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