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trivial
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adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2. Not worth the speaker's time. 3.
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Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly
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cretinous would have thought of them already. 4. Any problem one has already
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solved (some claim that hackish trivial usually evaluates to I've seen it
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before ). Hackers' notions of triviality may be quite at variance with those
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of non-hackers. See nontrivial , uninteresting. The physicist Richard
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Feynman, who had the hacker nature to an amazing degree (see his essay Los
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Alamos From Below in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! ), defined trivial
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theorem as one that has already been proved.
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