The next question would be 'how long did the average negotiation take' followed by 'how much were the average people on each side of the negotiation paid?" (or

The next question would be 'how long did the average negotiation take' followed by 'how much were the average people on each side of the negotiation paid?" (or are most of these negotiations the result of computers talking to each other? Either way with a few assumptions one could make an estimate of the smallest amount these different prices cost the system. Might be huge