[Sigia-l] "Study: Content Management Tools Fail"

[Andrew Hinton]

This is also called "litotes"

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=litotes

Just couldn't help bringing this up, since it may be the only time in my
life that learning this in 11th grade will matter. :-)

::simon at thegestalt.org::wrote on 3/2/03 7:10 AM:

> "nontrivial adj. 
> 
> Requiring real thought or significant computing power. Often used as an
> understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or
> impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial").
> The preferred emphatic form is `decidedly nontrivial'. See trivial,
> uninteresting, interesting."
> 


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