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There are only about 1080 atoms in the entire visible universe... Should this be read as 10^80? The way it's written is confusing.
by jessaustin 5y ago
There are only about 1080 atoms in the entire visible universe...
Should this be read as 10^80? The way it's written is confusing.
- trenchgun 5y agoIndeed. Those sentences should be like this: "When Shor’s algorithm has factorized a number, using 10^500 or so times the computational resources than can be seen to be present, where was the number factorized? There are only about 10^80 atoms in the entire visible universe, an utterly minuscule number compared with 10^500."