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 for trivial
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) :
  trivial
   adj.
  
      1. Too simple to bother detailing.
  
      2. Not worth the speaker's time.
  
      3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly {
      cretinous would have thought of them already.
  
      4. Any problem one has already solved (some claim that hackish trivial
      usually evaluates to ?I've seen it before?). Hackers' notions of triviality
      may be quite at variance with those of non-hackers. See nontrivial, {
      uninteresting.
  
      The physicist Richard Feynman, who had the hacker nature to an amazing
      degree (see his essay ?Los Alamos From Below? in Surely You're Joking, Mr.
      Feynman!), defined trivial theorem as ?one that has already been proved?.
  

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