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Re:What would a very simple quantum program look like? by majewsky on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:41AM (#14553058)
> Unfortunately "Hadamard" is not part of the English language.

Of course "Hadamard operation" is part of the English language. If you didn't allow proper nouns and foreign terms to be added to a language, none of the contemporary languages would exist.

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Re:What would a very simple quantum program look like? by oh_sigh on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:32PM (#14554374)
Hadamard was not a pre-existing English word or phrase like AND was, which I think what OP was getting at.
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