This week’s Sunday puzzle on NPR is a classic from Sam Loyd. Here’s Will Shortz:

This is one of the “lost” puzzles of Sam Loyd, the great American puzzlemaker from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s from an old magazine with a Sam Loyd puzzle column. The object is to arrange three 9s to make 20. There is no trick involved. Simply arrange three 9s, using any standard arithmetic signs and symbols, to total 20. How can it be done?

I played around with this puzzle this morning, and indeed, there is a way to solve it using only standard arithmetic (the four operations, parentheses, decimal points). However, as I was playing around, I found a second answer as well, using square roots and factorials.

Can you find both answers?