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> To go from the 17bit to the 2018 bit they need to use a million qbits instead of 1600-something. That's a tiny scale up of under 1000x. What makes you think
by nightcracker 6y ago
> To go from the 17bit to the 2018 bit they need to use a million qbits instead of 1600-something. That's a tiny scale up of under 1000x.
What makes you think that the time, energy and space costs of keeping n qubits coherent and executing a circuit on them is linear in n? No one has ever done it.
- alkonaut 6y agoI have no idea - but the whole point of the endeavor is (presumably) that it at least scales better than a classical CPU. The goal of the research was hardly to achieve what can be done on a smartphone in one second.