http://www.newscientist.com/cgi-bin/pageserver.cgi?/ns/980418/nquantumco
mputer.html
gives an isight into why the computers we use now will seem as useless as
the sinclair clcultor I used in my A level exams in 1979 does now.
"Now Isaac Chuang of IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose and Neil
Gershenfeld of MIT have made a quantum computer that works through another
of Grover's algorithms, answering two questions about one of four numbers.
The problem is similar to asking which of the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 is odd
and greater than 2.
Trefor Roscoe
GP Tutor - Informatics
N Trent
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