Re:Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019?
by dvh on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:47PM
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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...
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