Determing earth in percentage

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Onequestionj

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Earth is 4.543 billion years old
The ice age ended 11,700 years ago
Express 11,700 years to seconds in a 24hr day

Can anyone convert this first into a percentage and then convert that percentage into terms relating to 24 hours in a day? For example 11,700 years would equate to "x" "ex .00000001" seconds in a 24 hour day. This has to do with "climate change" and just curious since the last ice age ended 11,700 years ago what 11,700 years looks like based on an easy to understand 24 hour a day format. Can you please express it with a decimal and as many zeros as need without using a "to the power expression?" Thanks posters, I'm just a regular joe and have no way to convert the second part of my problem.
 
.00000001 is a very small number. Do you rally believe that maybe .0000001 is the number of seconds in a day? That is there is a very small number (less than 1) of seconds in a day.
 
First divide 11,700 by 4,543,000,000 to find the fraction of the earth's age since the ice age.

Then find the number of seconds in 24 hours.

Then multiply that by the decimal you got, and you'll have the number of seconds you're asking for.

Depending on the calculator you use, you may have some scientific notation on the display, but that will go away by the time you get to the answer (which turns out to be about a quarter of a second, not the tiny decimal you suggest).
 
Jomo said:
.00000001 is a very small number. Do you rally believe that maybe .0000001 is the number of seconds in a day? That is there is a very small number (less than 1) of seconds in a day.
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Jomo said:
.00000001 is a very small number. Do you rally believe that maybe .0000001 is the number of seconds in a day? That is there is a very small number (less than 1) of seconds in a day.
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Maybe I'm not explaining my question well enough

Earth is 4.543 years old
Ice age ended 11,700 years ago

Assuming 4.543billion years is 24 hours
What does 11,700 years equate to in seconds. I'm sure its less then .0000001 seconds
 
Perhaps you are not understanding the problem well enough because everyone else here is! Dr. Peterson told you exactly what to do: "divide 11700 by 4,543,000,000 to find the fraction of the earth's age since the ice age." to determine the fraction. Then determine the number of number of seconds in a day (there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute). Finally multiply the fraction by that number of seconds.
 
Onequestionj said:
Maybe I'm not explaining my question well enough

Earth is 4.543 years old
Ice age ended 11,700 years ago

Assuming 4.543billion years is 24 hours
What does 11,700 years equate to in seconds. I'm sure its less then .0000001 seconds
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There are 60 seconds in just one minute (which is way less than 1 day) so how can there be less than 60 seconds (like .0000001 seconds) in 24 hours! Think about this. Maybe you are thinking that .0000001 is a large number? It is 1,000,000 that is large.
 
So what you need is to be convinced that the math is correct, right? Let's take it in the other direction.

What fraction of a day is a second? It's 1/(24*60*60) = 1/86400 = 0.00001157.

What fraction of the earth's existence has there been since the ice age? 11700/4543000000 = 1/388291 = 0.000002575.

The latter is only about 1/4 of the former, not some tiny amount as you were "sure". I agree that this is not what I expected; but that means my intuition was wrong, not that the math is wrong or that I have misunderstood the question!
 
Jomo said:
There are 60 seconds in just one minute (which is way less than 11,700 years) so how can there be less than 60 seconds (like .0000001 seconds) in 11,700 years! Think about this. Maybe you are thinking that .0000001 is a large number? it is 1,000,000 that is large.
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You're misunderstanding the question. The OP is not claiming there are 0.0000001 seconds in 11,700 years, but that the ratio of 11700 years : 4543000000 years is the same as the ratio of 0.0000001 seconds : 1 day. It's wrong, but not as wrong as what you are thinking.
 
Dr.Peterson said:
You're misunderstanding the question. The OP is not claiming there are 0.0000001 seconds in 11,700 years, but that the ratio of 11700 years : 4543000000 years is the same as the ratio of 0.0000001 seconds : 1 day. It's wrong, but not as wrong as what you are thinking.
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Yes, I realized that and was going to delete my post but saw that you had already commented on my post. Thanks for pointed it out to me in any case.
 
Jomo said:
Yes, I realized that and was going to delete my post but saw that you had already commented on my post. Thanks for pointed it out to me in any case.
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