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This one is called No Question and is summarized by the following dialog that I observed many times:

As an engineer proceeds with analysis of a problem a phone rings and an irritated customer (internal or external) asks “What is the answer?”, an engineer glancing over the problem description replies, “What is the question?”.

This immediately came to my mind when I found this famous dialog:

“As the poet Gertrude Stein lay on her deathbed, her partner, Alice B. Toklas, leaned over and whispered, ‘What is the answer, Gertrude?’. Replied Stein, ‘What’s the question?’”

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