This is one of the things I really resent about QC as a field - there's so much chaff where one paper will say "we can do x" and the reality is that x does not

This is one of the things I really resent about QC as a field - there's so much chaff where one paper will say "we can do x" and the reality is that x does not mean what everyone thought that they meant. Number of Qbits is another thing - also what gates are implemented in the devices; how long they can run for etc etc etc.