NJ5 on 02 February 2009
| bdbdbd said: @NJ5: The quantum computers do offer increase in processing power, i would say it's the way the tech has to go if it's wished to keep improving. |
In some problems, not all of them. If you want to factor numbers you get an exponential speedup. If you want to invert a function you get a quadratic speedup. For many problems you get no speed up at all AFAIK.
Quantum computing is overrated (as far as current knowledge shows).
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