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MIT And HP Announce Joint Quantum Computer Project

Posted by timothy on from the closer-ever-closer dept.

MetaCow writes: "CNN is running this article which describes a joint effort between MIT and HP to build a quantum computer. Nothing expected any time soon, though: 'Quantum computing research is farsighted, and it may take 10 years to develop a fully operational quantum computer ...'"

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  1. uhm... what? by pergamon · · Score: 0, Redundant
    this doesn't sound right:
    While the classical bit can store any number between 0 and 255 on each of its eight bytes, the qubit can store all the numbers between 0 and 255 on a byte of eight qubits. This allows much more information to be stored on a quantum bit than a classical bit...