I felt an electric shock when I realized the size of it -- 43 feet in circumference and 16 feet across. This is an interesting measure. A circle with diameter

I felt an electric shock when I realized the size of it -- 43 feet in circumference and 16 feet across. This is an interesting measure. A circle with diameter of 16 would have a circumference of 50. For an ellipse with a wide dimension of 16, the short dimension would be 11.2 to have a circumference of 43. I wonder why the tree grew in such an odd shape. Was it double-trunked? The image references were broken when I accessed the article. The Wayback Machine has a low resolution photo. Looks like it might have a trunk split way up there? https://web.archive.org/web/20160205052143/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/the-lost-valley-of-the-wollemi-pine/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160205052143/https://blogs.sci...