Solution

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Power is energy per time. In geometrized units, energy has the dimension of length and time is converted to length using , so the dimensionless geometrized luminosity is
Equivalently, is the corresponding SI power unit. The lifetime for emitting the entire rest energy at the given constant luminosity is
The same result follows from . The stipulated full-mass radiation time is of order years; this is the constant-luminosity energy budget asked for, not a stellar-evolution calculation.

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