Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace

Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y)

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If Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more would be 200 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more would be 50 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more would be 50 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more would be 10 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)...more would be 10 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (425 y)...more would be 2 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (423 y)...more would be 2 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi (206 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (104 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more would be 2/5 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since first email sent (53 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the launch of Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004 (53 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace

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