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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
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. |
Coincidentally, I read
this on the BBC web site earlier this week.
I am certain that I don't really understand this area, but it is definately interesting.