I'm not in the field but in my understanding it's going to make it easier to do parallel competitions and also will allow us to find the inputs that can lead to

I'm not in the field but in my understanding it's going to make it easier to do parallel competitions and also will allow us to find the inputs that can lead to a particular output in some types of equations. Factoring numbers is only one of the "practical" equations. Materials science and chemistry (e.g. predicting how drugs may behave in our bodies) will benefit, or other computationally heavy "try out many permutations and see which ones fall though" tasks may become a bit easier. Climate modelling, supply chain logistics, financial modelling, and of course AI.