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Re:The Google Willow Thing by ojbyrne on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @05:10PM (#42382159)
As with most novel hardware since the dawn of computing, there are ways to emulate it.

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit

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Re:The Google Willow Thing by bigiain on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @08:28PM (#42383735)
Damian Conway did it in Perl back in the late 90's:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Quantum::Superpositions

(Sadly, the Perl Module has to do classical calculations underneath to get the Quantum computing code/functions to execute, but it let you experiment with silly little QC toys - "Look, I factorised 15 in parallel!!!")

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