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

Comments

[babysimon]

The first sentence does. The rest is probably too quantum for me ;-)

But damn, you've really disillusioned me. I thought all that talk of NDTMs might one day have some real-world meaning.

Fucking academics.