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Programmable Quantum Computer Created

Posted by Soulskill on from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"

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  1. Re:79% accuracy ... by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want 1005 accuracy. I don't want 2+2 = 3.9999999999882 on average after 100 runs, then having it fail every time when I do an if(2+2) == 4).

    Sure, I could use a delta, and then make sure it's under that, but then you have the accumulation of errors and tolerances.

    Take a barrel of shit, add a cup of wine, you still have a barrel of shit.

    Take a barrel of wine, add a cup of shit, you have a barrel of shit.

    A failure rate of 21% is bad business. Ask Microsoft wrt the XBox RRofD