You Cannot Make a Silk Purse From a Sow's Ear Puzzle
A cryptic column asks to express the number ten using five nines in four ways with examples like (9 plus 9/9) to the 979 power. It notes readers should find the other three methods, two of which are easy, and hints at a Fresno fruit packing plants using a blue flag as an unofficial timekeeper for work.
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