Float glass is sold by the square metre, and at the final stage computers translate customer requirements into patterns of cuts designed to minimise waste.
浮法玻璃按平方米出售，在最后阶段，电脑将客户的要求转化为旨在减少浪费的切割模式。
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The statue in front of me is a small painted wooden figure of the god Osiris, just over half a metre high, in a glass case in one of the first rooms of this engrossing exhibition.