Re:Figurative or literal? (Score 1)

> Did they really mean a minute?
> Maybe that minute was 4 years long...

It sounded like you just pulled that number out of thin air, but then my shell whispered to me:

% echo '13.73*10^9 / (6000*365.24*24*60)' | bc
4

Give me more digits, zsh!

% echo '13.73*10^9 / (6000*365.24*24*60)' | bc -l
4.35089357784024304668

So that figurative minute should be ~4.35 Earth-now-years long.