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Its origins lie in the joke about a man in a hot-air balloon who asked someone where he was. "You're in a balloon," he answered. The rider concluded that it was a mathematician that said that, because the answer was perfectly correct and completely useless.
 
[[How Many [[All of Them]] is a subtrope that's its own [[Stock Phrase]]. See also [[What's a Henway?]]. Contrast [[Implied Answer]] when the question isn't answered at all, and the meaning is quite clear.
 
Compare with [[Non-Answer]].
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