English

Alternative spellings

• non-trivial

Adjective

1. Not trivial
2. Having at least one non-zero variable
3. Needing significant computing power to solve

• 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 \mathrm: X \to Y 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).

See also

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