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-[[File:Pale blue dot.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[Biggs hoson]], captured by Voyager 1 in 1991.]]
+{{image|Biggs hoson|png|A Biggs hoson passing the threshold of juridical credibility, yesterday.}}
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+}}The [[Biggs constant]] (also known as the “[[Biggs threshold]]”, the “[[Biggs minimum]]”, the  “[[Biggs particle]]” 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 ''none at all''.
-===Origins===
-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 ''none at all''. It is the point ''just before'' the one at which the last guttering flicker of one’s plausible contribution to the forward momentum of a [[transaction]] is snuffed into a curlicue of waxen smoke; the final instant before the tiny pale blue dot of one’s personal justification for even bothering to show up is finally subsumed utterly into the awesome grandeur of the [[negotiation]]al cosmos.
+It is the moment ''just before'' one’s last guttering flicker of plausible contribution to the forward momentum of a [[transaction]] is snuffed into a curlicue of waxen smoke; the instant before the tiny pale blue dot of one’s personal justification for even bothering to show up is finally, utterly, subsumed into the awesome grandeur of the [[negotiation]]al cosmos.
-===[[Biggs hoson]]===
-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 highly unstable [[legal mark-up|markup]] and will quickly decay into pure levity, giving off copious quantities of entropic gas as it does so. This too was first isolated by Professor Biggs. Having derived the [[Biggs constant]] from a set of [[Mourant equations]], Biggs used the constant to calculate the smallest possible size for a forensically significant jurisprudential particle, and recreated it briefly in his lab in Cabot square in 1997.
 ===Relevance in contemporary theoretical finance===
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+===[[Biggs hoson]]===
+Since 1997, any [[legal mark-up]] that reaches the [[Biggs threshold]] exactly, but does not exceed it for meaningfulness — the smallest possible size for a forensically significant jurisprudential particle — has been known as a “[[Biggs hoson]]”. Being highly unstable, the hoson is rarely seen outside laboratory conditions and will quickly decay into levity, giving off copious quantities of [[Entropy|entropic]] gas in the process.
+===The self-referential [[definition]] as an example of a Biggs hoson===
+A “[[Dilbert definition]]”, in which ''referential expression == referent'',  is a frequently claimed example of a relatively stable [[Biggs hoson]], though its status as such is hotly contested at certain sorts of dinner table.
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 *The [[Fish principle]]
+{{Technical Tuesday|Nov 20}}{{c|Astronomy}}