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You say "If they have 20 qubits in two months" and "if they have 50 within a couple of years". Doesn't the article say that they have 50? I'm unclear on this,

You say "If they have 20 qubits in two months" and "if they have 50 within a couple of years". Doesn't the article say that they have 50? I'm unclear on this, because I have yet to see a published result talking about running Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer beyond the NMR-based physical simulation and the adiabatic one (which is just annealing). What exactly is IBM claiming to have done here?

wmnwmn 9y ago
I read it as saying they've passed some development milestones on 50 which is certainly all one could expect before the release of the 20.
daxorid 9y ago
They're simulating 50; they're implementing 20.