It will do all the work of a business, its scientific calculations, its routine office accounting, and its occasional costing analyses as each comes round, and it will take in its stride all the awkward exceptions that crop up in every batch of routine calculations.

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However, if someone bought alumina, shipped it, then was willing to take payment in that aluminium that has been made, then money could be made all round.

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