Question: Once upon a time, there was a little white mouse that lived on a farm. He liked to hide in the hay stacks where it was warm through the day and night. On cold winter days, he would wiggle out from the hay stack to get closer to the lamp in the barn, getting some extra warmth. One winter day, the mouse was very cold, but needed something to eat. He left the hay stack, and ran past the lamp. He ran across an old wood board that was laying on top of the snow - the mouse didn't have mittens and wanted to keep his feet warm. He ran and ran until he couldn't any longer. The cold weather was keeping every living thing inside, so the mouse was all alone. He walked towards the house and met a little bug named Fred. Fred told the mouse that he went inside and found lots of crumbs to eat on the kitchen floor. The mouse waited until the farmer's wife, Julie, came out the back door, and then the mouse ran into the kitchen. There were bread crumbs everywhere! The mouse ate as many as he could before anyone found him. He heard the back door open again, and hid under the oven. It was warm there - there must have been a pie baking. Farmer Bill liked pies more than bread, cake, or cookies. The mouse stayed there to warm up, then ran back to the barn to sleep for the night. 1. What did the mouse eat?
2. What is the farmers name?
3. And what does he like most?
4. Is the mouse male or female?
5. What was keeping every living thing inside?
6. Who told the mouse about the food?
7. And his name was?
8. Where did the mouse keep warm?
9. Where did he spend the majority of his time during the day keeping warm?
10. Who was Fred married to? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. bread crumbs
2. Bill
3. pies
4. Male
5. cold weather
6. a bug
7. Fred
8. by the lamp
9. in the hay stacks
10. Julie

Q: The abbreviation myr, "million years", is a unit of a quantity of (i.e. ) years, or 31.6 teraseconds.

Myr is in common use where the term is often written, such as in Earth science and cosmology. Myr is seen with "mya", "million years ago". Together they make a reference system, one to a quantity, the other to a particular place in a year numbering system that is "time before the present".

Myr is deprecated in geology, but in astronomy "myr" is standard. Where "myr" "is" seen in geology it is usually "Myr" (a unit of mega-years). In astronomy it is usually "MYR" (million years).

In geology the debate of the millennia concerns the use of "myr" remains open concerning "the use of "Myr" plus "Mya"" versus "using "Mya" only". In either case the term "Ma" is used in geology literature conforming to ISO 31-1 (now ISO 80000-3) and NIST 811 recommended practices. Traditional style geology literature is written The "ago" is implied, so that any such year number "X Ma" between 66 and 145 is "Cretaceous", for good reason. But the counter argument is that having "myr" for a duration and "Mya" for an age mixes unit systems, and tempts capitalization errors: "million" need not be capitalized, but "mega" must be; "ma" would technically imply a "milliyear" (a thousandth of a year, or 8 hours). On this side of the debate, one avoids "myr" and simply adds "ago" explicitly (or adds "BP"), as in In this case, "79 Ma" means only a quantity of 79 million years, without the meaning of "79 million years ago".

1. yes
2. million years ago
3. million years
4. 31.6
5. yes
6. no
7. yes
8. the term "Ma"
9. yes
10. one avoids "myr" and simply adds "ago" explicitly
11. ISO 31-1 (now ISO 80000-3)
12. NIST 811

Numbered questions:
1. is myr roughly the same as mya in amount?
2. what does mya stand for?
3. and myr?
4. how many teraseconds does it represent?
5. do they use it in astronomy?
6. how about in geology?
7. is there a debate between myr and mya usage?
8. which one is favored?
9. is myr avoided?
10. how do they do that?
11. which iso does ma conform to?
12. what NIST recommended practice does it conform to?

input: Chapter XXXII.

The seniors of the party at Benfield Lodge were all assembled one morning in a parlor, when its master and the baronet were occupied in the perusal of the London papers. Clara had persuaded her sisters to accompany her and Francis in an excursion as far as the village.

Jane yet continued reserved and distant to most of her friends; while Emily's conduct would have escaped unnoticed, did not her blanched cheek and wandering looks at times speak a language not to be misunderstood. With all her relatives she maintained the affectionate intercourse she had always supported; though not even to her aunt did the name of Denbigh pass her lips. But in her most private and humble petitions to God, she never forgot to mingle with her requests for spiritual blessings on herself, fervent prayers for the conversion of the preserver of her life.

Mrs. Wilson, as she sat by the side of her sister at their needles, first discovered an unusual uneasiness in their venerable host, while he turned his paper over and over, as if unwilling or unable to comprehend some part of its contents, until he rang the bell violently, and bid the servant to send Johnson to him without a moment's delay.

"Peter," said Mr. Benfield doubtingly, "read that--your eyes are young, Peter; read that."

Peter took the paper, and after having adjusted his spectacles to his satisfaction, he proceeded to obey his master's injunctions; but the same defect of vision as suddenly seized the steward as it had affected his master. He turned the paper sideways, and appeared to be spelling the matter of the paragraph to himself. Peter would have given his three hundred a year to have had the impatient John Moseley a hand, to relieve him from his task; but the anxiety of Mr. Benfield overcoming his fear of the worst, he inquired in tremulous tone-- 1. Whose eyes were better suited for reading?
2. Did he wear glasses, also?
3. How did he turn the paper to read it?
4. Was he having trouble deciphering it?
5. Where were the seniors gathered?
6. Was there a party?
7. Where?
8. What was being read in the parlor?
9. What was Clara planning?
10. Who was coming with her?
11. How far were they going to go? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Pryrt
2. yes
3. sideways
4. yes
5. a parlor
6. yes
7. Benfield Lodge
8. the London papers
9. Clara had persuaded her sisters to accompany her and Francis in an excursion
10. her sisters and Francis
11. to the village