Is That A Big Number?

If Time since the earliest bread baking (30,000 y) was a standard unit ...

Time since the end of the Carboniferous geologic period (299 million y)...more would be 10000 x Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since the earliest primates (75 million y)...more would be 2500 x Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since first humans in Europe (30,000 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since extinction of Neanderthals (30,000 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the earliest bread baking

Age of earliest sewing needle (30,000 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since first humans in Americas (15,000 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since the birth of al-Kindi (1,220 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since the birth of Dante Alighieri (759 y)...more would be 1/40 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since the publication of Einstein's theory of Special Relativity (119 y)...more would be 1/250 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since the birth of computer scientist Grace Hopper (118 y)...more would be 1/250 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since the invention of the transistor (76 y)...more would be 1/400 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Period of Halley's Comet's orbit (75.3 y)...more would be 1/400 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Lifespan of horse (30 y)...more would be 1/1000 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Period of Saturn's orbit (29.5 y)...more would be 1/1000 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Time since first iPhone launched (15 y)...more would be 1/2000 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Lifespan of a cat (15 y)...more would be 1/2000 of Time since the earliest bread baking

Period of Jupiter's orbit (11.86 y)...more would be 1/2500 of Time since the earliest bread baking

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