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Is 3.3330 shackles as long as a Giant Sequoia (tree)?

It's about one-and-one-fifth times as tall as a Giant Sequoia (tree)
The height of a Giant Sequoia (tree) is about 2.80 shackles.
(a.k.a. Sequoiadendron giganteum, a.k.a. Sierra redwood, a.k.a. Wellingtonia)
Giant Sequoias of the Giant Sequoia National Monument located in Sierra Nevada, near Visalia, California can grow to heights of 2.80 shackles. The wood from the Giant Sequoias is often brittle and prone to shattering when such trees are felled, and as a result the trees logged in the late nineteenth century were often usable only as shingles or matchsticks.
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