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Re:Shor, I’ll do it by Kliment on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @07:13AM (#985676)
Wonderful article, but link entered into text field rather than URL field. http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208 (clickable version). Beautiful explanation of the Quantum Fourier Transform and some practical aspects of quantum computing without any domain-specific math.
Re:Shor, I’ll do it by skip on Thursday December 10, 2009 @11:10AM (#988032)
Unfortunately he did not credit Feynman for the 'clock' analogy, who I believe originated this way of describing quantum processes.
Re:Shor, I’ll do it by jsonscripter on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @11:21AM (#985983)
I know I just read something amazing, but my head hurts.