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IBM Builds A Limited Quantum Computer

Posted by chrisd on from the soon-your-pgp-key-will-be-useless dept.

phr1 writes "IBM has announced and Yahoo has noted that the first working implementation of Shor's factoring algorithm. Using NMR techniques they built a seven-qubit quantum computer and factored the number 15 into the factors 3 and 5. This is by far the most complicated quantum computation ever done. It's quite an amazing feat--many people thought quantum computing was just a theoretical curiosity and Shor's algorithm could never be implemented in practice."

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  1. That's easy! by MicroBerto · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Well shucks, I was able to factor 15 into 5 x 3 when I was in 3rd grade! Maybe I'm "The One"!!

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  2. Re:Almost there! by DigitalEntropy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's what they said about 640 Kilobytes.

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