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Re:IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor by Xeoncross on Friday November 10, 2017 @03:24PM (#15672659)
> "We've had quantum computers since the 90's".

It wasn't until 2005 we had the first (probable) qubyte created at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

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Re:IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor by kevin_thibedeau on Friday November 10, 2017 @03:58PM (#15672978)
You don't need bytes to do computation.
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Re:IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor by colejohnson66 on Friday November 10, 2017 @08:52PM (#15674560)
Wouldn't a qubyte be 8 qubits?
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Re:IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor by mtgx on Saturday November 11, 2017 @04:50AM (#15675662)
The term doesn't make sense because you're not going to use groups of 8 qubits to represent characters on a screen.

We may actually need a new word for 2 qubits (dual-qubits? dubits?) because it seems 2 qubits are enough to break 1-bit of encryption, and I think I've read it's enough to simulate 1 atom, too.

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Re:IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor by colejohnson66 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:12AM (#15675714)
I thought it was x qubits is equal to 2^x classical bits? So wouldn’t 2 “dubits” actually be four times (not twice as) better?
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