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}}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]].