Most probable question one asks while working on a problem is "how to solve it", and one desperately tries 'fixes' to the problem, but as it goes, quick fixes don't solve big problems. One also needs to identify where should it be fixed. This realization comes after a little experience and carries with itself quite a serendipity , e.g in situations when you find that some one else has got to fix it. :D
Not limited to those situations though, applications are far wider and significant of this question. A story frames a king who has a very large machinery which stops working one fine day without any prior clues. None of his skilled people could solve it. A expert is imported who, as story has it, fixes the machinery with hammering a spot and demands exorbitant fees, say 10000000 rupees ( a rupee is approximately 1/42 dollars at the time of this writing ). I believe in such a situation, a socialist king from CPI(M) or a capitalist king from Congress (I )/BJP would behave the same way and ask the rationale behind such a large amount for one act of masonry. However the expert held that the amount quite matched the efforts. His cash memo was simple and itemized :
Item Quantity Price
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Hammering 1 Rs 1/-
Finding the spot to hammer - Rs 999999
It carries the point : "What is the right place to fix it." Workarounds are not solutions.
