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Re:Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory by nilson on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:10PM (#14713988)
im not "clinging to single universe world view" but i got 2 questions: 1. has this alghoritm actually been executed somewhere? 2. does this mean there is infinite storage posibillity to store any data you want or it must be "special" data. and how much time does it take to access any segment of this data.

if the answer is no to both question then my answer is: "it doesn't work."

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Re:Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory by Tenoke on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:25PM (#14714452)
> 1. has this alghoritm actually been executed somewhere?

Yeah, but so far we have the highest factorization achieved is 21 because we've only built relatively tiny quantum computers.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

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