Is That A Big Number?

If Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (425 y) was a standard unit ...

Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more would be 100 x Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more would be 25 x Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more would be 25 x Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more would be 5 x Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)...more would be 5 x Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of mathematician Hypatia (1,674 y)...more would be 4 x Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of Fibonacci (854 y)...more would be 2 x Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (423 y)...more would be about as big as Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of Darwin (215 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since the first Volkswagen Beetle produced (86 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

Time since first IBM Personal Computer launched (43 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written

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