[Political Junkie Too]

"What's a qubit?"

-PJ

[suasponte137]

“What’s a qubit?”

It was a video game from the 80’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q*bert

[CodeToad]

“How long can you tread water?”

[milagro]

LOL!!

[sopo]

A qubit, or quantum bit, is the basic unit of information used to encode data in quantum computing and can be best understood as the quantum equivalent of the traditional bit used by classical computers to encode information in binary.

The term “qubit” is attributed to American theoretical physicist Benjamin Schumacher.https://www.ibm.com/topics/qubit

Schumacher has a course on Quantum mechanics on the Great Courses, I heard him claim credit for this term and it turns out he wasn’t just tooting his own horn. Anyway, Jay Valentine who has election integrity process claims to use “fractal computing and quantum computing, “ which has made a lot of people skeptical. I guess this will help with his procedures if ordinary people ever get a chance to use it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

“What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”

[sopo]

well, I missed the sarcasm, lol ( actually , wincing in pain)

[Sirius Lee]

What's a qubit?"

Its a maybe. Depends on how you look at it.

[piytar]

A qubit is a quantum mechanics based superposition thing that is both 1 and 0 at the same time.

This is a little hard to grasp let alone explain. I’ll try here:

A bit (what normal computers work with including what you’re using to read this) is a 1 or a 0.

A qubit is both at the same time.

Example: factor (find the divisors) of 15. With normal bits you try 1, 2, 3 <- win! after three steps.

With qubits you try 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc all at the same time. Instant win in one step.

(I am massively oversimplifying but think it makes the point.)

[bwest]

An ark measure used by Noah. Yeah, I listen to Bill Cosby, too.

[Red Badger]

[null and void]

"What's a qubit?"

About 18 inches...

[j_guru]

"What's a qubit?"

It basically means that all your encrypted passwords, and PIN codes can be cracked in .000000000000038 seconds

In the InfoSec world, this is Y2K all over again. It's a big deal.