The computer science sense of "trivial" comes from the mathematical sense, "Related to or being the mathematically most simple case. More generally, the word "t

The computer science sense of "trivial" comes from the mathematical sense, "Related to or being the mathematically most simple case. More generally, the word "trivial" is used to describe any result which requires little or no effort to derive or prove." [0] And of course "trivial" is related to "obvious" when used in a math lecture. [0] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trivial.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trivial.html