What type of complexity is more important in the context of software design?

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1. Local complexity
2. Global complexity
3. Both local and global complexity are equally important
4. Both local and global complexity are equally unimportant

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Chapter 3 describes, on page 36

As software engineers and architects, it is our responsibility to manage essential complexity while avoiding accidental complexity.

That means that it is important

The chapter further illustrates that both local and global complexity are equally important. Therefore option 3 is the correct one

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as a mathematician by training I would like to point out that option 4; they are equally unimportant is also true