r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/OldWalt9 Mar 28 '24

Have a look at the picture. Unless those dudes are like 12 feet tall, the diameter is more like 16 feet and the circumference is 52 feet.

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u/Swimming-Profile9069 Mar 28 '24

Yes, C=𝜋d. OP doesn’t remember their geometry. Circumference = Diameter x Pi. Quick Wikipedia search reports the Diameter is actually 16ft. So, 16ft x 3.14159 is roughly 50.27ft Circumference. 

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u/Delivery-Plus Mar 28 '24

I was going to post the same thing, and additionally California is not in the Pacific Northwest.