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Re:Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer by Causality1 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:15PM (#20731479)
We seem to be getting better at using quantum computers for hard math. What I'm curious about is when we'll be able to use them for easy math. How many qubits do we need to run Doom Quantum?
Re:Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer by krastanov on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:24PM (#20731904)
Quantum computers are (conjectured to) outperform classical computers in a very restricted set of problems. These problems happen to be extremely important (e.g. protein folding and some forms of linear algebra), but for tasks that are already efficiently solved by classical computers you probably will never use a quantum computer (maybe in many decades this will change, when it becomes as "trivial" to construct quantum CPUs as it is to construct classical CPUs)
Re:Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer by marcus0x62 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:37PM (#20732325)
Or the subset of users who need what a quantum computer can offer add something analogous to a GPU to their general purpose computer.