An old man walks onto a construction site looking for work. The foreman looks him up and down, clearly doubtful, then says, \u201cI might have something for you\u2026 but first you need to pass a little math test.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The old man shrugs. \u201cAlright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The foreman smiles and says, \u201cFirst question. Without using numbers, represent the number nine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWithout numbers?\u201d the old man repeats. \u201cThat\u2019s easy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He bends down and draws three trees<\/strong> in the dirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The foreman squints. \u201cWhat is that supposed to be?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The old man looks at him like he\u2019s offended. \u201cYou don\u2019t have a brain? Tree plus tree plus tree makes nine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The foreman pauses\u2026 then nods. \u201cFair enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He clears his throat. \u201cSecond question. Same rules \u2014 but this time, represent the number ninety-nine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The old man stares into space for a long moment. Then he picks up the drawing of the three trees, adds a little smudge on each one, and hands it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The foreman scratches his head. \u201cHow on earth does that<\/em> represent ninety-nine?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The old man grins and says, An old man walks onto a construction site looking for work. The foreman looks him up and down, clearly doubtful, then says, \u201cI might have something for… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28395,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions\/28395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cEach tree is dirty now.\u201d \ud83d\ude0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"