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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Put a pocket calculator out of business?
1) Does "put a pocket calculator out of business" mean "make a pocket calculator based on the quantum mechanics"?
2) What does " whether the theoretical quantum speed-up this provides" mean? Does it mean "this adiabatic quantum computing offers the speed-up (the speed-up of the theoretical quantum. Yet no one knows wheher such speed-up can be practical in use in reality)"?
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Has anyone built a quantum computer?
Labs around the world have built devices with a handful of working qubits, but they wouldn't even put a pocket calculator out of business: one of the most impressive results to date is factoring 21 into 3 and 7. Meanwhile, several years ago, D-Wave burst on to the scene, offering up its machines for sale. But despite high-profile customers – including US defence firm Lockheed Martin and Google, which operates its D-Wave machine in partnership with NASA – there are still questions about whether the machines really count as quantum computers. They rely on an alternative theory called adiabatic quantum computing and no one knows whether the theoretical quantum speed-up this provides can be translated to real-world machines.
2) What does " whether the theoretical quantum speed-up this provides" mean? Does it mean "this adiabatic quantum computing offers the speed-up (the speed-up of the theoretical quantum. Yet no one knows wheher such speed-up can be practical in use in reality)"?
Context:
Has anyone built a quantum computer?
Labs around the world have built devices with a handful of working qubits, but they wouldn't even put a pocket calculator out of business: one of the most impressive results to date is factoring 21 into 3 and 7. Meanwhile, several years ago, D-Wave burst on to the scene, offering up its machines for sale. But despite high-profile customers – including US defence firm Lockheed Martin and Google, which operates its D-Wave machine in partnership with NASA – there are still questions about whether the machines really count as quantum computers. They rely on an alternative theory called adiabatic quantum computing and no one knows whether the theoretical quantum speed-up this provides can be translated to real-world machines.
Top answer
NL888 1) Does " wouldn't even put a pocket calculator out of business" mean "wouldn't even make a pocket calculator based on the quantum mechanics"? No, it means that previous quantum computers are very poor; not even as good as pocket calculators. NL888 2) What does " whether the theoretical quantum speed-up this provides" mean?
- NL888 1) Does " wouldn't even put a pocket calculator out of business" mean "wouldn't even make a pocket calculator based on the quantum mechanics"?
- No, it means that previous quantum computers are very poor; not even as good as pocket calculators.
- NL888 2) What does " whether the theoretical quantum speed-up this provides" mean?
- Does it mean "this adiabatic quantum computing offers the speed-up (the speed-up of the theoretical quantum.
- Yet no one knows wheher such speed-up can be practical in use in reality)"?
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NL8881) Does "wouldn't even put a pocket calculator out of business" mean "wouldn't even make a pocket calculator based on the quantum mechanics"?No, it means that previous quantum computers are very poor; not even as good as pocket calculators.
NL8882) What does " whether the theoretical quantum speed-up this provides" mean? Do
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