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Re:When Math Gets Impossibly Hard by sudosysgen on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:30PM (#24500211)
Not sure you can call any of the actual quantum computers we've made "analog", but if you're talking about the quantum annealment machines, they are generally more limited and take longer than an equivalent supercomputing cluster.
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Re:When Math Gets Impossibly Hard by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:27PM (#24500526)
Hum... Quantum computers tend to be digital, not analog. The word "q-bit" is there for a reason, just because the bits are entangled it doesn't make them analog.

Besides, the set of problems you can solve is different from the set of problems you can solve quickly. When discussing analog and digital computers, the speed difference isn't all that relevant, but you seem to be confusing them here. Quantum computers do not solve any problem you can't solve on a classical computer, they just solve some faster.

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Re:When Math Gets Impossibly Hard by sudosysgen on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:36PM (#24500580)
Well yeah, that's exactly my point. Quantum computers are digital, which is not what the above comment claimed, except for quantum annealers which are closer to analog computers.

What I'm saying is that even quantum annealers aren't really faster at any practical problem than a comparable supercalculator as of yet.

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Re:When Math Gets Impossibly Hard by marcosdumay on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:12AM (#24504176)
Oh, I was intending to reply to the parent of your comment.
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