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cosmological decade: logarithmic (varies) 10 times the length of the previous cosmological decade, with CD 1 beginning either 10 seconds or 10 years after the Big Bang, depending on the definition. eon: 10 9 yr: Also refers to an indefinite period of time, otherwise is 1 000 000 000 years. kalpa: 4.32 × 10 9 yr: Used in Hindu mythology. About ...
decades, centuries, millennia (1 Gs = over 31 years and 287 days = 1,000,000,000 s) 1.5 Gs: Unix time as of Jul 14 02:40:00 UTC 2017. Unix time being the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z ignoring leap seconds. 2.5 Gs: (79 a): The typical human life expectancy in the developed world 3.16 Gs: (100 a): One century
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An alternative way of referring to the past is to use a scale with intervals of equal duration. We speak of a given decade, century, or millennium. For the enormously long geologic time frame, it is advantageous to use corresponding large, equal time intervals encompassing the events and processes that have shaped our planet.
The start of the 21st century and 3rd millennium was celebrated worldwide at the start of the year 2000. One year later, at the start of the year 2001, the celebrations had largely returned to the usual ringing in of just another new year, [ 8 ] although some welcomed "the real millennium", including America's official timekeeper, the U.S ...
This side of the millennium, he has taken the breath away with his screen portraits of 19th-century Protestant gangster Bill the Butcher in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002) and ruthless ...
It is a Latin transliteration from the ancient Greek word ὁ αἰών (ho aion), from the archaic αἰϝών (aiwōn) meaning "century". In Greek, it literally refers to the timespan of one hundred years. A cognate Latin word aevum (cf. αἰϝών) for "age" is present in words such as eternal, longevity and mediaeval. [3]
In the decade since, the hours-long queues, added fees and bloated prices associated with buying … Dice CEO Phil Hutcheon on a Decade of Fighting Dynamic Pricing in the Ticketing Industry and ...