Nontrivial

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Nontrivial can mean a number of things.

• It is a term common among communities of engineers and mathematicians, to indicate a statement or theorem that is not obvious or easy to solve.
• The term has formal meaning in certain contexts. In mathematics:
  • A functional dependency is called nontrivial if Y is not a subset of X.
  • A nontrivial factor of a number N is any factor besides 1 and N.
  • In general, nontrivial is used formally as an antonym for trivial, in contexts where that word has a formal meaning. See Trivial (mathematics).

[edit] See also

• Trivia
• Trivia (disambiguation)
• Trivial (mathematics)

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