Or he'll buy a roast chicken, chop it up and mix it together with the juices that come with the chicken.

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ABB's best trick is its ability to take electric current of any voltage and frequency, chop it up into tiny bits and reassemble it into the form needed.

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Now orders have to be executed at the best available price that can be automatically executed on any exchange, even if it means asking a computer to chop up that 100, 000 order into lots of little chunks and spreading them across ten networks.

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