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Re:Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Co... by xiphias2 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:57AM (#21333634)
It would be great if they could start to publish benchmark results for Shor's algorithm if the conputer is able to run it, even if the results are not exact at this point.
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Re:Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Co... by scottlocklin on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:17AM (#21335486)
They absolutely can't publish benchmark results for Shor; their architecture can't run it at all. This is Google and IBM's marketing departments duking it out for ... reasons. IBM has physics on their side.
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Re:Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Co... by fooker on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:40AM (#21335741)
>IBM has physics on their side.

What do you mean by this?

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Re:Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Co... by xiphias2 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:10PM (#21336652)
They wrote that the computer is a generic computer, so it's perfectly capable of running Shor's algorithm, just not with practical parameters (for example without error correction)
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