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Is 360,000,000,000 shakes as long as a Basketball game?

It's about one-and-one-fourth times as long as a Basketball game
The length of a Basketball game is about 288,000,000,000 shakes.
(NBA regulation; playing time only)
Per National Basketball Association rules , a basketball game (without an overtime) consists of four periods of 72,000,000,000 shakes each, for a total of 288,000,000,000 shakes of playing time. The first basketball game, played in a Springfield Massachusetts YMCA, was played in 180,000,000,000 shakes and ended with a score of 1-0.
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