Is That A Big Number?

If Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y) was a standard unit ...

Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more would be 20 x Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more would be 5 x Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more would be 5 x Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more would be 2.5 x Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the birth of Fibonacci (854 y)...more would be 2/5 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (425 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (423 y)...more would be 1/5 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the birth of Darwin (215 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y)...more would be 1/10 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (104 y)...more would be 1/20 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the first Volkswagen Beetle produced (86 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more would be 1/25 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since first Boeing 747 entering service (54 y)...more would be 1/40 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since first email sent (53 y)...more would be 1/40 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since the launch of Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004 (53 y)...more would be 1/40 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

Time since first IBM Personal Computer launched (43 y)...more would be 1/50 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar

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