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A comment on Cello – a Verilog compiler for transcriptional logic in bacterial cells.

Re:Cello – a Verilog compiler for transcriptional logic in b... by amelius on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @09:43AM (#11430274)
Can you use this to factor large numbers into primes?

How many bacterial cells do you need to factor a number of N binary digits?

It would be cool if bacteria beat quantum computers for this task :)

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Re:Cello – a Verilog compiler for transcriptional logic in b... by john_reel on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @10:26PM (#11436174)
Honest question: what would make a bacteria better for factoring than a conventional computer?
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