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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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