Scale of Advancement ...
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We can comprehend ...
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El Guerrouj’s factor-of-1.07 over Bannister
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El Guerrouj’s factor-of-2 over average 20 year old
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Possibly Blackbird’s factor-of-220 of Flyer 1
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Can we comprehend a factor-of-21,000,000? Or even
a factor-of-5000?
Had El Guerrouj improved on Bannister
by a factor-of-21,000,000, he would have
run the mile in 11.4
micro
seconds