Posted on 09/02/2017 4:48:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
No offense, but I call BS. 51 atoms does not a computer make.
Does it run DOS?
The program will never take off until it proves it can handle cat pictures.
load hi mem
Common core math hits the grant system mainstream.
Math results that have enough random results that they do not match on repeat iterations of the computation are worthless no matter how fast they run.
Besides, I worked on tri state computers in the 80’s. They were unstable then too. There is a reason that methodology was abandoned then as now.
I’ve puzzled over the significance of “quantum computing,” and the closest I come is to recall analog computers. Analog computers are great for certain kinds of problem solving.
If someone invents a quantum computer then encryption is going to become ineffective overnight.
Actually, it does.
Instead of bits, 1 or 0, a Qubit can have nearly infinite states. This makes it an amazing form of memory.
While you are correct, there is a once-only form of encryption (also based on quantum physics) that is, literally, unbreakable.
Sounds something like a principle of one Werner Heisenberg
I’m trying to understand the fundamental principle involved in quantum computing. After the reading the following 3 paragraphs from the linked article, together with the stuff I found elsewhere (beneath that) I think I’m finally just now beginning to understand. I remain very unclear as to how that fuzzy principle of quantum mechanics, where a quantum entity is in a state of neither here nor there can be used to flip a transistor on or off as the 1s and 0s of standard binary computing do.
Any help would be appreciated.
From the article...
“What it does do is give us a third kind of bit where typical computers have only two [1 and 0].
In quantum computing, we apply quantum superposition – that odd cloud of ‘maybes’ that a particle occupies before we observe its existence cemented as one of two different states – to solving highly complex computational problems.
While those kinds of problems are a long, tedious process that tax even our best supercomputers, a quantum computer’s “qubit” mix of 1s, 0s, and that extra space in between can make exercises such as simulating quantum systems in molecules or factorising prime numbers vastly easier to crunch.”
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From an outside source...
“Binary is a counting system used by computers to do mathematics. Instead of using 0 to 9 as digits, it only uses 1s and 0s. This is because it is easier for a computer to represent numbers with only ones and zeroes (on and off) rather than with 10 different digits.”
“The circuits in a computer’s processor are made up of billions of transistors. A transistor is a tiny switch that is activated by the electronic signals it receives. The digits 1 and 0 used in binary reflect the on and off states of a transistor. Computer programs are sets of instructions.”
If you like it...
Good enough for me.
I’m like a dog looking
at an Empty
Food Bowl.
Thanks. That ties together perfectly the things I previously understood.
The devil (and God) is in the interface.
Qubit logic will allow the simultaneous search of all the possibilities represented by an array of bits. Instead of testing all the possible values of the array one by one like we do now, it allows testing them all simultaneously and immediately indicating the value that meets the criteria. Things like factoring huge integers will become easy, and modern encryption will become a fishbowl.
True enough... the one-time pad will not be beatable. But anything algorithm-based will be beatable. The reason it is not beatable now is because the computational power required is still too much.
I’d believe it wise to start to get an infrastructure based on one-time pad encryption, before it gets forced on us by quantum computers.
Another thing quantum computers will do is to utterly hose the bitcoin economy.
Schroedinger’s cat already has one.
;)
What does this mean for white supremacy?
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