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I'm afraid you're a bit off. A quantum computer can search N possibilities (such as when, say, looking up data in a database, though I doubt you'd go to the tr
by Sniffnoy 9y ago
I'm afraid you're a bit off. A quantum computer can search N possibilities (such as when, say, looking up data in a database, though I doubt you'd go to the trouble of using a QC for that) in time O(sqrt(N)). So for 2^N things, that's 2^(N/2), not 2^(sqrt(N)). Obviously still a big improvement.