U
uri
How much faster will quantum computers be than classical computers?
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Glenn Møller-Holst
uri said:
Hi!
Look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#The_power_of_quantum_computers
kind regards,
Glenn
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John McGaw
Glenn said:
Or look at the March 2008 issue of Scientific American in which an
article debunks some of the wilder claims made for quantum computers.
U
uri
The problem is that the scientific american article is not free.
J
jimp
Neither are most things in life.
Isn't that a bitch?
J
John McGaw
uri said:
Never claimed that it was free, just that it existed. It is lying on my
nightstand right now. If you really want free you can probably go down
to your local purveyor of periodicals and read the article while walking
around casually pretending to browse.
U
uri
It is a bitch. Most knowledge isn't free but there are several
altruistic projects like wikipedia or the free information society
which provides knowledge for free.
J
jimp
In sci.physics uri said:
Have you ever heard the term "public library"?
H
HardySpicer
So fast that you have the answer before you asked the question!
Hardy
H
hhc314
Uri, no real scientific informatin is ever cost free. Real testbooks
are expensive, and good luck with whatever you find for free on the
Internet.
Ask yourself this question: How does one construct an 'quantum
computer'? What precisely is the technology employed to construct one?
Harry C.
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Grinder
uri said:
Exactly 42x.
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hhc314
Amen to that. Plus, almost every library has this copy of Scientific
American available for free reading.
Given the decline of Scientific American credibility over the past 15
years, it's not the best place to learn about science, but at least it
is freely available to read at a library.
Harry C.
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Sam Wormley
Grinder said:
That figure is "mostly harmless" but it might be a tiny bit
faster than that.
J
John McGaw
Sam said:
A very deep thought.
H
hhc314
Precisely!
Evidently your recreational reading is much like mine.
Harry C.
U
Uncle Al
uri said:
Quantum computation for large product factoring does not work - no way
to interface input and output through a reasonable collection of
states. How fast is that? Hey... already done!
No other applications.
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philo
Grinder said:
when you throw *any* type of computer out the window
they all fall at 32/ft/sec^2
C
CBFalconer
The essence of a stupid remark, especially on an international news
group. Another problem for Uri is likely to be that Scientific
American is just not available in his part of the world.
J
jimp
His quite specific bitch was that Scientific American is not free, NOT
that it wasn't available.
U
uri
So what are the limits of effective computation in nature? Can we
reach computing speed billions and trillions of times faster than
current computers?
reach computing speed billions and trillions of times faster than
current computers?