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.

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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