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Making Sense of Complexity
- Gibbon 17y agoIs it just me or do others get peeved when the words complex and complicated are used interchangeably? To me they mean very different things: A complicated problem is one that is difficult to understand. A complex problem is one composed of many distinct parts. A complex problem could also be very complicated, but a complicated problem may not or may not be complex at all depending on the situation.
- johnm 17y agoIndeed. Most people use "complex" when they really mean "complicated".