THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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would be able to figure out who owned how much stock in what.

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They found the on-the-job engineering office for the ship in a small
dome half a mile from the construction dock. Yves Jacquemont and Mack
Vibart and Schalk Retief moved in and buried themselves to the ears in
specifications and blueprints. The others formed into parties of three
or four, and began looking about production facilities for material.
There was a steel mill a mile from the construction site; it was almost
fully robotic. Iron ore went in at one end, and finished sheet steel and
girders and deck plates came out at the other, and a dozen men could
handle the whole thing. There was a collapsium plant; there were
machine-shops and forging-shops. Every time they finished inspecting
one, Yves Jacquemont would have a list of half a dozen more plants that
he wanted found and examined yesterday morning at the latest.