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> Quite a large number of physicists (and quantum computing people) seem to speak as if there is one. The reason they seem to speak that way is because they ar
by im3w1l 6y ago
> Quite a large number of physicists (and quantum computing people) seem to speak as if there is one.
The reason they seem to speak that way is because they are being a little sloppy for the sake of brevity. The physicists all understand that there is a blurry boundary.
There is an amusing instance where there was a similar confusion though: the soft diffraction limit was mistaken by many for a hard one. So super-resulution came as a bit of a shock.