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Re:IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer by jacquesm on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:00PM (#21006732)
A committee was involved somewhere.
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Re:IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer by tw53bitquantum on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:52PM (#21007264)
53 bits is the significand in IEEE754 (Double precision FP).
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