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Nontrivial

Requiring real thought or significant computing power.

Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial").

The preferred emphatic form is "decidedly nontrivial".

See uninteresting, interesting.

[Jargon File]

< Previous Terms	Terms Containing nontrivial	Next Terms >
non-optimal solution Nonpareil non parity non-polynomial Non Return to Zero Inverted	dot file Nightmare File System nontrivial Turingol uninteresting	Non-Uniform Memory Access non-uniform quantising logarithmic compression Non-Uniform Rational B Spline non-volatile non-volatile memory

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