nontrivial

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Editorial note

Agreed that it's a positive thing to actually pay people for nontrivial amounts of work.

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Not trivial.

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adjective

Not trivial.

adjective

(mathematics) Not obvious or easy to prove; not self-evident.

adjective

(mathematics) Not being of the simplest kind; not being empty or a singleton.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for nontrivial.

adjective

Not trivial.

adjective

(mathematics) Not obvious or easy to prove; not self-evident.

adjective

(mathematics) Not being of the simplest kind; not being empty or a singleton.

adjective

(computing) Needing significant computing power to solve; intractable.

Example sentences

Agreed that it's a positive thing to actually pay people for nontrivial amounts of work.

Maybe for embarrassingly parallel tasks, but if you require nontrivial interprocess communication, a server farm can't compete with the interconnect of a modern supercomputer.

The job market is already tough and finding people with a deep understanding of Lisp to start working on an (assumed) nontrivial Codebase isn't easy.

Maybe it's not worth bending on free speech in some specific cases, but there is a point where it is worth it, ie, if there are enough people in the offended audience that the chance of losing a potential contributor is nontrivial.

OS X is free as well (and has been for years), but Apple hasn’t pulled crap like putting ads in the OS (probably at least partly because it’s nontrivial to run OS X without buying Apple hardware… all the more reason to be disappointed if Microsoft still includes tracking and ad crap when you’re actually paying for the OS).