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loevborg on March 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Complexity and Strategy

"Accidental complexity" and "incidental complexity" are usually taken to be synonymous, to be contrasted with "inherent complexity".

kvb on March 25, 2017 [–]

I've more often heard "inherent complexity" called "essential complexity".

notduncansmith on March 25, 2017 | [–]

This is the term used in Out of the Tar Pit IIRC.

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