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Re:Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019? by gundmc on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:35PM (#20017337)
"Here we experimentally demonstrate the factorization of two bi-primes, 4088459 and 966887 using IBM's 5- and 16-qubit quantum processors, hence making those the largest numbers that have been factorized on a quantum device."[1]

It looks like some real progress has been made with qbit quality and stability in the last few years! I think that 21 figure held for quite a while. Maybe it still does hold and I'm misunderstanding some of the nuance.

1 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10478

Re:Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019? by dvh on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:47PM (#20017401)
Yes, those are the examples of quantum methods that don't scale to cryptographic levels. The only one that can scale is shor's and the answer is still 21. https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59795/largest-int...
Re:Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019? by gundmc on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:42AM (#20019931)
Thanks for clarifying! TIL