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That's on the useful end but I don't think any QC has gone beyond being able to factor 14 or something in that neighborhood. Realistically we'd need a few thou
by scheme271 7mo ago
That's on the useful end but I don't think any QC has gone beyond being able to factor 14 or something in that neighborhood. Realistically we'd need a few thousand qubits to factor anything that's reasonable and current QCs have a dozen or so qubits that work.
- vrighter 7mo agono QC has gone beyond being able to factor 1. The "factorization" done with quantum computers involved cherry picking special numbers so that a special "compiled" circuit (knowledge of the answer is required in order to do this) can be used instead of the full thing. That makes the semantics of the executed program "slightly" different. What the claims say: factor(a,b) What the implementation does: println("3").
- scheme271 7mo agoOh, I didn't realize that. I knew it was limited but not that limited. That's pretty misleading.