QUANTUM COMPUTER PERFORMS FIRST SUCCESSFUL FACTORING

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QUANTUM COMPUTER PERFORMS FIRST SUCCESSFUL FACTORING

IBM SCIENTISTS BUILD MACHINE THAT SOLVES MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS WITH QUANTUM MECHANICS

NUMBER 15 FACTORED

FACTORS ARE 3 AND 5

http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

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Re: Gulp.

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It's already surpassed by conventional techniques, and if both conventional and quantum techniques stick to their current rates of improvement then it always will be.

Also, it may turn out to be fundamentally impossible to run a 50-qubit machine without decoherence killing it...