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>it's widely accepted that Shor works. We simply don't have hardware to run the full version. I can't quite get this - surely until we have an execution on the
by sgt101 1y ago
>it's widely accepted that Shor works. We simply don't have hardware to run the full version.
I can't quite get this - surely until we have an execution on the proper hardware we can't accept that it works? There are engineering problems to resolve before we can be confident - perhaps they can be easily resolved, but so far they haven't.
I would be very curious to learn what the barriers to a demonstration of Shores on an arbitrary 8bit prime are...
- William_BB 1y agoIt's mathematically sound and the quantum primitives it uses are well understood. The limiting factor in practice, as with everything quantum, is noise. You are right -- we don't know for certain until it's implemented. I suppose it's part of a bigger question: whether quantum computing will work at all. My knowledge of quantum hardware is limited, so I can't really comment more on this.