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Old 09-08-2009, 11:14 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Only PDF I'm afraid The quantum is referring to quantum mechanics. i.e. a computer driven by the laws of quantum rather than classical physics. Turns out to be significantly more powerful. For example, using a classical computer to search through a collection of N unsorted entries,will take, on average N/2 queries, whereas with a quantum computer it can be done in the square root of N. For very large N this can be a huge speedup.
You see, THIS is what I mean. The man is speaking Greek to me.

Yet he designed a program I understand, can use, and does what I want it to....easily.

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