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- adjective Not trivial; of some importance.
- adjective Mathematics Of, relating to, or being an expression in which at least one variable is not equal to zero.
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- adjective Not
trivial . - adjective mathematics Having at least one
non-zero variable . - adjective computing Needing significant computing power to solve;
intractable .
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Examples
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While it's what engineers call a nontrivial problem, making a car drive itself is ultimately just a matter of engineering, and will sooner or later become a reality.
What will autonomous cars mean for cities? David Alpert 2010
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Narayana Kocherlakota noted recently that the Fed would need to sell a "nontrivial" amount of its holdings, such as $15 billion to $25 billion a month, to return its balance sheet to precrisis levels.
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"nontrivial" in the sense that it wasn't easy to accomplish.
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That is surely a nontrivial gap, but it also means that three quarters of religious Americans approve of divorce in at least some circumstances.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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There is thus an urgent need to find some nontrivial topics on which America and China can work together and so rediscover the win-win logic that prevailed during the Age of Optimism.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Matt seems to be just blowing off the near-term risk of large bank failures in his commentary on these issues, but the risk of something like a double-dip recession makes the near-term risk of large bank failures nontrivial.
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You may question the assumption of randomness all you want, but the theory makes a nontrivial prediction that is born out experimentally, so the standard model of Brownian motion is generally accepted.
The Weasel Thread 2009
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As to the nontrivial difference between 3% and 2%, the fact that 2% both has been the historical rate on T-bonds for the last 75 years and is the rate currently projected by the market, and how ...
Actuarial Scoring Errors, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You may question the assumption of randomness all you want, but the theory makes a nontrivial prediction
The Weasel Thread 2009
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Because the Z flag is the only flag that is a nontrivial function of X, there is a delay of 1 after the ALU output becomes valid in order that the Z flag is valid.
Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill: Part 2 « The Half-Baked Maker 2009
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