> but their "bits" (qubits?) can be anything from 0 to 1 This is not the interesting part, because there are models of computation that allow for this, but are

> but their "bits" (qubits?) can be anything from 0 to 1 This is not the interesting part, because there are models of computation that allow for this, but are believed to be equivalent to classical computation. What makes quantum computing different is that 1. the basic data are unit vectors in a 2^n dimensional vector space (when you have n qubits) and 2. you don't have direct access to the qubits during a computation, and "reading" a qubit destroys all the information in any related qubits! So imagine a classical computer program where reading a variable destroyed the content of your other variables! That's closer to the quantum model. So it's more of a semantic difference than a syntactic one.