Time since the birth of Darwin

Time since the birth of Darwin (215 y)

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If Time since the birth of Darwin (215 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more would be 10 x Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since the birth of Fibonacci (854 y)...more would be 4 x Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since the Caxton's first edition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (548 y)...more would be 2.5 x Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (425 y)...more would be 2 x Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (423 y)...more would be 2 x Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since the first Volkswagen Beetle produced (86 y)...more would be 2/5 of Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since first Boeing 747 entering service (54 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since first email sent (53 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since the launch of Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004 (53 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Darwin
  • Time since first IBM Personal Computer launched (43 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since the birth of Darwin

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

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