Solution

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For conserved nonrelativistic matter, , where and . Substitution into the Friedmann equation gives
with
The source writes the dimensionless normalized factor as in its final expression; this is equivalent to setting consistently in the curvature coefficient. Evaluating today gives . Here the printed already has dimensions of inverse time squared. If the cosmological constant is instead defined geometrically with inverse-length-squared units, replace this by .

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