fatcatfan
10-31-2003, 06:01 PM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33711.html
Wow. Ten years away. Quantum computers could change a whole freakin lot of things. Problems that currently take days, weeks, months, years to solve by modern computers could be solved with a quantum computer in seconds. The difference between a quantum computer and those we have today is that a modern computer must try each possible solution till it finds an answer that works. A quantum computer tries *all* possible solutions simultaneously, arriving at the answer in a single step.
Wow. Ten years away. Quantum computers could change a whole freakin lot of things. Problems that currently take days, weeks, months, years to solve by modern computers could be solved with a quantum computer in seconds. The difference between a quantum computer and those we have today is that a modern computer must try each possible solution till it finds an answer that works. A quantum computer tries *all* possible solutions simultaneously, arriving at the answer in a single step.