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Factoring requires much better noise performance. So you don't have to consider the number of qubits yet for that particular application. A fundamental breakthr
by upofadown 1y ago
Factoring requires much better noise performance. So you don't have to consider the number of qubits yet for that particular application. A fundamental breakthrough is required.
There might be applications other than factoring that can be addressed with the noisy qubits we can actually create.
- charlieyu1 1y agoWhat’s the purpose of quantum computing other than solving discrete logarithm or factorisation? Doesn’t seem very promising at the moment
- ryao 1y agoIt is said to be useful for optimization problems like protein folding, although they have so few qubits that I am not sure how useful it really could be. A microcontroller with only 1024 bits of RAM for example has very limited usefulness so I would not think a quantum computer with a similar number of qubits would be very useful either.