Ouroboros
The serpent that eats its own tail, and so never ends.
Determinate, the head closes on the tail at 100. Indeterminate, it never arrives — the body is consumed at exactly the rate the head advances.
Integration
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Progress. Determinate for known work, indeterminate for open-ended.
Budget
- One visible at a time. Two circling serpents read as a broken page.
- Prefer indeterminate only when the end is genuinely unknown — it is a claim, not a decoration.
Restraint is the aesthetic, and it does not survive being applied generously. These limits are the specification, not advice.