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I guess these correspond to what mathematicians and the like call "trivial" and "non-trivial".
by Dewie 13y ago
I guess these correspond to what mathematicians and the like call "trivial" and "non-trivial".
- carlob 13y agoNot exactly. Trivial usually denotes solutions that are obvious and not very interesting such as 0, 1 or the empty set. It's more of a property of the solution than the difficulty of the problem. By extension sometimes you can say a proof is trivial, when it's very easy, but I think the primary use is the one I mentioned above.
- ByronT 13y agoFeynman on "trivial": http://books.google.com/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&lpg=PA84&ots=esWVgdoKZZ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&lpg=PA84&ots=e...