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[[File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|thumb|Transdimensional corporations often have mascots, such as this four-dimensional bacteriophage.]]A '''transdimensional corporation''' ('''TD''', '''TD corp''', etc.) is an organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in one or more dimensions other than their [[root state]].
[[File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|thumb|Transdimensional corporations often have mascots, such as this four-dimensional bacteriophage sponsored by [[Extract of Radium]].]]A '''transdimensional corporation''' ('''TD''', '''TD corp''', ), also known as a '''quantum corporation''', is an organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in one or more dimensions other than their root state.


By contrast, [[multinational corporations]] are bound to three dimensions and the flow of time.
By contrast, [[Multinational corporation (nonfiction)|multinational corporations]] are bound to three dimensions and the flow of time.


== In the News ==
== Commentary ==
 
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In the beginning was barter.
 
Then coins got invented as tools of empire.


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Then empires invented corporations.
File:Nysa on Maeander Library Upgrade.jpg|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] upgrading to full [[transdimensional corporation]] status. Note the grid-shaped progress bar in the foreground.
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== Famous TD corporations ==
Then transnational corporations invented themselves.


=== Extract of Radium ===
The next logical step is #transdimensional #corporations.
</blockquote>


[[Extract of Radium]] is a delicious, information-rich beverage, capable of marketing itself in several dimensions. Humans love it!
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1387180323981647880 Post] @ Twitter (27 April 2021)


=== National Razor ===
== In the News ==


[[National Razor]] provides [[mass execution (nonfiction)]] services, specializing in [[knife (nonfiction)|knives (nonfiction)]].
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File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|January 17, 1965: [[Extract of Radium]] opens new retail outlet in Palomares, Spain, in preparation for the Palomares nuclear weapons event.  


== Stateless corporation ==
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|[[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."


A [[stateless corporation]] is a related phenomenon in which corporations own or control production of goods or services outside their [[root state]].
File:Gabriel Cramer.jpg|link=Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|July 30, 1751: Mathematician, physicist, and [[APTO]] field agent [[Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|Gabriel Cramer]] publishes Cramer's Gnomon, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a [[Gnomon algorithm]] system having a unique solution, in terms of [[transdimensional corporations]] implied by the system.


== Trandimensional prison ==
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[[File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|thumb|150px|This bond, issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1623, has been converted to a [[transdimensional prison]].]]
A [[transdimensional prison]] is a transdimensional corporation which functions as a [[prison (nonfiction)]].
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Extract of Radium]]
* [[Extract of Radium]]
* [[National Razor]]
* [[National Razor]]
* [[Root state]]
* [[Owner-operated transdimensional corporation]]
* [[Stateless corporation]]
* [[State (mathematics)]]
* [[State (physics)]]
* [[Transdimensional prison]]
* [[Transdimensional prison]]
* ''[[Why Can't We See Transdimensional Tax Returns?]]'' is an influential book by mathematician [[Alice Beta]] about transdimensional corporations.


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Multinational corporation (nonfiction)]]
* [[Multinational corporation (nonfiction)]]
* [[Root (computer science) (nonfiction)]]
* [[Owner-operated multinational corporation (nonfiction)]]
* [[State (mathematics) (nonfiction)]]
* [[State (politics) (nonfiction)]]


[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Transdimensional corporations]]
[[Category:Transdimensional corporations]]

Latest revision as of 18:46, 17 June 2021

Transdimensional corporations often have mascots, such as this four-dimensional bacteriophage sponsored by Extract of Radium.

A transdimensional corporation (TD, TD corp, ), also known as a quantum corporation, is an organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in one or more dimensions other than their root state.

By contrast, multinational corporations are bound to three dimensions and the flow of time.

Commentary

In the beginning was barter.

Then coins got invented as tools of empire.

Then empires invented corporations.

Then transnational corporations invented themselves.

The next logical step is #transdimensional #corporations.

  • Post @ Twitter (27 April 2021)

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference