Is That A Big Number?

If Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y) was a standard unit ...

Age of earliest stone hand axe (2.6 million y)...more would be 250 x Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period (2.58 million y)...more would be 250 x Time since first domestication of cattle

Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more would be 4 x Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more would be about as big as Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of Pythagoras (2,594 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (425 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (423 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi (206 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (104 y)...more would be 1/100 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since first email sent (53 y)...more would be 1/200 of Time since first domestication of cattle

Time since the launch of Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004 (53 y)...more would be 1/200 of Time since first domestication of cattle

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