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[[File:Pale blue dot.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[Biggs hoson]], captured by Voyager 1 in 1991.]] | [[File:Pale blue dot.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[Biggs hoson]], captured by Voyager 1 in 1991.]] | ||
}}The [[Biggs constant]] (also known as the “[[Biggs threshold]]”, the “[[Biggs minimum]]”, and the “[[Biggs point]]” after British financial naturalist [[J. M. F. Biggs|John Meriwether Fortescue “Jack” Biggs]]) is the point at which incremental [[legal mark-up]] can not make ''less'' of a difference to the juridical content of a passage without making no difference at all. It is point ''just before'' which the last guttering flicker of plausible contribution to the forward momentum of the [[transaction]] is snuffed into a curlicue of waxen smoke; when the tiny pale blue dot of one’s personal justification for | }}The [[Biggs constant]] (also known as the “[[Biggs threshold]]”, the “[[Biggs minimum]]”, and the “[[Biggs point]]” after British financial naturalist [[J. M. F. Biggs|John Meriwether Fortescue “Jack” Biggs]]) is the point at which incremental [[legal mark-up]] can not make ''less'' of a difference to the juridical content of a passage without ''making no difference at all''. It is point ''just before'' which the last guttering flicker of plausible contribution to the forward momentum of the [[transaction]] is snuffed into a curlicue of waxen smoke; when the tiny pale blue dot of one’s personal justification for bothering to show up is finally subsumed utterly into the awesome grandeur of the [[negotiation]]al cosmos. | ||
A [[legal mark-up]] that reaches the [[Biggs threshold]] exactly, but does not exceed it for meaningfulness, is called a “[[Biggs hoson]]”. It is a very unstable [[legal mark-up|markup]]. | A [[legal mark-up]] that reaches the [[Biggs threshold]] exactly, but does not exceed it for meaningfulness, is called a “[[Biggs hoson]]”. It is a very unstable [[legal mark-up|markup]]. |