Normalize the present scale factor to . In a flat universe containing radiation in cosmology, pressureless matter, and a cosmological constant, the Friedmann equation is
where . Since , the age of an FLRW universe is
For a matter-only flat Einstein-de Sitter universe,
Taking the present value , for which the Hubble time is , gives
The age of an FLRW universe follows from . Neglecting radiation and spatial curvature gives
For an Einstein-de Sitter universe, and , so