Time since the birth of Cleopatra

Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)

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If Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more would be 20 x Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more would be 5 x Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more would be 5 x Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more would be 2.5 x Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more would be 2.5 x Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (425 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (423 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi (206 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (104 y)...more would be 1/20 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since first email sent (53 y)...more would be 1/40 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra
  • Time since the launch of Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004 (53 y)...more would be 1/40 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra

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