Short Answer
A parchment is offered for sale at a Paris flea market. The owner claims it is at least 2000 years old. However, a carbon-dating test shows that - ratio for the manuscript is 95% of the corresponding ratio for currently manufactured parchment. How old is the manuscript? (The decay constant of is 0.00012)Enter your answer exactly in the form (no units).
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