1 posted on
10/30/2003 10:02:27 PM PST by
sourcery
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Libertarianize the GOP; Sabertooth; Free the USA
FYI
2 posted on
10/30/2003 10:02:47 PM PST by
sourcery
(Moderator bites can be very nasty!)
To: sourcery
3 posted on
10/30/2003 10:06:04 PM PST by
Chancellor Palpatine
(Dr. Hasslein was the only human character who had any sense in the "Apes" series)
To: sourcery
Will this computer be able to figure out my checkbook?
:-)
4 posted on
10/30/2003 10:11:26 PM PST by
Diddley
(Liberal logic: I support the troops [read police], but I don’t support the war [read fighting crime])
To: sourcery
"As an example Tsai estimated that using the Shor Algorithm to factor a 256-bit binary number, a task that would take 10 million years using something like IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene supercomputer, could be accomplished by a quantum computer in about 10 seconds."
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Amazing!
To: sourcery
That means calculations, such as working out the factors of prime numbers, which present problems for even the fastest supercomputers Work out the factors of prime numbers? I can already do that instantaneously.
To: sourcery
As an example Tsai estimated that using the Shor Algorithm to factor a 256-bit binary number, a task that would take 10 million years using something like IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene supercomputer, could be accomplished by a quantum computer in about 10 seconds. If they ever get that to happen, bye bye all modern cryptography.
To: sourcery
Truly fascinating.
To: sourcery
"Our guess is anywhere between 10 years and 100 years from now," he said. Ironically, if they had the quantum computer, they could calculate in one picosecond, the length of time (to ten-zillion decimal places) it would take to build a quantum computer.
26 posted on
10/30/2003 11:12:37 PM PST by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Talking about racism is not racist. Being afraid to talk about racism enables the real racists.)
To: sourcery
NEC Corp ADR closed at 9.20 today, up 0.02 (+0.22%). Not exactly a quantum leap.
But I've got to wonder: what, as explained in Euclideo-Newtonian or Einstienian terms, the heck is happening in the pre-decoherence state (the quantum state); and what, other than the observation, causes the decoherence?
These questions are ontological, addressing being qua being. I understand the calculations of information content, but what exactly is being harnessed -- other than the information itself? Does this CNOT gate, in fact, manipulate information as entropy?
We don't anticipate the answers to these hypothetical questions to be provided in the published paper.
28 posted on
10/30/2003 11:14:03 PM PST by
Unknowing
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: sourcery
They'll need this computer to keep track of the national debt in a few years. If the Republicans keep it up, they'll need it next year.
29 posted on
10/30/2003 11:19:06 PM PST by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
To: sourcery
But if they can be developed, quantum computers hold the potential to revolutionize some aspects of computing because of their ability to calculate in a few seconds what might take a classical supercomputer millions of years to accomplish. I'm sure that Microsoft can come up with something to slow it down.
To: sourcery
Yes, but can it condescend saying, "I feel your pain" as it bytes its bottom lip?
41 posted on
10/31/2003 6:52:41 AM PST by
sully777
(Yesterday is today you may regret tomorrow)
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