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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. How long? by billyjoeray · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ok place your bets, how long until NetBSD is running on this thing?

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