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Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace

Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (207 y)

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If Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (207 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
  • Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since building of Stonehenge (5,120 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the earliest writing (5,100 y)...more would be 25 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 the birth of Pierre de Fermat (421 y)...more would be 2 x Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of Dickens (210 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi (204 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (102 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since the first Volkswagen Beetle produced (84 y)...more would be 2/5 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 Boeing 747 entering service (52 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since first email sent (51 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 (51 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace
  • Time since first IBM Personal Computer launched (41 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace

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