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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>nontrivial</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="nonlinear.html" title="nonlinear"/><link rel="next" href="not-entirely-unlike-X.html" title="not entirely unlike X"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">nontrivial</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nonlinear.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="not-entirely-unlike-X.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="nontrivial"/><dt xmlns="" id="nontrivial"><b>nontrivial</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Requiring real thought or significant computing power. Often used
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as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or
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impractical, or even entirely unsolvable (“<span class="quote">Proving P=NP is
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nontrivial</span>”). The preferred emphatic form is <span class="firstterm">decidedly nontrivial</span>. See
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<a href="../T/trivial.html"><i class="glossterm">trivial</i></a>, <a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a>,
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