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6 Oct 2024 06:04:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quantum Pov, soon?  
From: scott
Date: 9 May 2016 03:16:23
Message: <57303947$1@news.povray.org>
>> One thing is absolutely certain though, I'm not about to write a
>> raytracer to run on this thing anytime soon :-)
>>
>
> Since the current computer has a whopping 5 qbits, you have plenty of
> time to learn.  IIRC the current state of the art in quantum computation
> is the ability to write a program which proves with high probability
> that 15=5*3, so 3D rendering is a ways off yet.

Grover's algorithm looks interesting, if I ever get that far in the 
tutorial. But yes, with just 5 qbits, things are a bit limited...


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