The interesting thing isn't that they've factored a 22-bit number, the interesting part is that they've done it with quantum annealing - obviously factoring 22-

The interesting thing isn't that they've factored a 22-bit number, the interesting part is that they've done it with quantum annealing - obviously factoring 22-bits is easy! I've got no idea of what is actually said in the paper (it is in Chinese) - there was a little bit of discussion on it a couple of days of days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563