For positive pressureless matter density, positive cosmological constant, negligible radiation and zero curvature, the Friedmann equation gives . Substituting gives the displayed age of an FLRW universe measured from . Its zero-vacuum limit is ; the pure positive-vacuum flat patch has no finite big-bang age.
The age of a flat matter-Lambda universe is . The large-argument expansion gives the first limit. Its small-argument expansion gives the second. The divergence at the pure-vacuum endpoint reflects the absence of a finite Big Bang time in the expanding flat de Sitter spacetime patch.

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