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How many earth years does it take to equal one light year?

Answer 1

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It appears that the question asks for the conversion of two distinct items into one.

One light year is the distance traveled by light in vacuum in one Julian year. It has dimensions of Distance. It is #approx9.461xx10^15 m#

It is an informal unit of distance used in day-to-day talk to express astronomical distances. Scientific unit is parsec (symbol: pc, which is #approx 3.26# light-years)

A unit of time is one earth year.

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Answer 2

Lydia Allen

One light year is equivalent to about 5.88 trillion Earth years.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.