Simple, Complex

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What is the most horrible name you could give to an arrangement of triangles? Well, another word for arrangement is a complex. And a triangle is the canonical simplex. So: a simplex complex? Its a cute name, but it misses the point. The technical term is Simplicial complex. Yeah, simplicial. Who but a mathematician would determine "simple" to be not complex enough?