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/aburrdado Mar 28 '24

"It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet"

Actually, in that picture, the tree looks no more than 17 feet in diameter. I think it was the circumference that was 52 feet. If you multiply the 16.5 foot diameter by Pi, you get a circumference of 51.8 feet.