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Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by Ftuuky on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:28AM (#11628580)
But what am I going to do with it?
Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by sp332 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:10AM (#11628876)
You could run Grover's algorithm on a database with 2^5=32 elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's_algorithm Or Shor's algorithm to factor a 5-bit number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by nxzero on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:37AM (#11628637)
Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?

Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!

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Currently, I'm not aware of anything that's not able to be done with QC qubits that not able to be done with classical binary computation.

If you wanted, you can download quantum computer simulator, write some QC'ish code, run the code, and you'll never write any code that won't resolve with crashing or taking forever, though it'd be faster on the 5 qubits though.

Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by Panoramix on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:00AM (#11628799)
I think David Deutsch came up with some simple algorithms back in the early 90's that are exponentially faster in a QC. I don't know if they implemented Hadamard/XOR gates in this thing.
Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer by nxmehta on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:26AM (#11634172)
1. Shor's algorithm

2. Grover's algorithm

3. Quantum simulation

If you're not doing those three things, throw it in the trash, more or less.