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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 ''none at all''. | }}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''. | ||
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. | 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. | ||