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Re:New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers by Sniffnoy on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:49PM (#15911648)
I'm afraid you're a bit off. A quantum computer can search N possibilities (such as when, say, looking up data in a database, though I doubt you'd go to the trouble of using a QC for that) in time O(sqrt(N)). So for 2^N things, that's 2^(N/2), not 2^(sqrt(N)). Obviously still a big improvement.
Re:New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers by ryacko on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:41AM (#15912495)
But wouldn't it have to be stored as qubits? A database in qubits would be expensive.
Re:New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers by Sniffnoy on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:28AM (#15912885)
Well, yes, that's one reason why you wouldn't actually use a QC for that...