Quantum computing

[BaDBoY16]

What is it and is it gona happen ?

 

[Inquisitor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing

 

[Mat]

World's first "commercial" quantum computer solves Sudoku

Quantum computer to debut next Tuesday?

 

[Andr3w]

i gave up reading after the first few lines of wiki, trying to understand it gave me a headache

 

[MookJong]

OcUK question and answer service now open for service!

Anyway back to the discussion...

 

[BaDBoY16]

HAHA loool has anyone heard of the first cpu with organic nerves in it, was reading a magazine about, was pretty impressive

 

[dustiestrat]

so *** will be the benefit of a quantum computer when they actually do start getting better why are they better than normal comp? didnt read wiki to much hard work and long words .

 

[Mat]

so *** will be the benefit of a quantum computer when they actually do start getting better why are they better than normal comp? didnt read wiki to much hard work and long words .

Basically, the active qubits (think transistors) are able to be in more than one state (think 1 and 0) at any one time so more than one calculation can be done at once meaning you can decode almost any crypto in a fraction of the time that a normal computer could do it in.... for instance.

 

[BaDBoY16]

sounds like a extreme machine, do you think they will think higher than us ?

 

[Psyk]

sounds like a extreme machine, do you think they will think higher than us ?

Without a program written by a human it won't "think" at all. So no.

 

[Inquisitor]

sounds like a extreme machine, do you think they will think higher than us ?

That's another question altogether really. Computers don't "think", they execute instructions.

 

[rpstewart]

What is it and is it gona happen ?

I could find out but looking will change it

 

[BaDBoY16]

i dont mind

 

[slap ed]

in theory a quantum computer would be a ble to solve any encryption makeing 128 bit encryption useless , and most security systems for banks etc obselete
cool eh!

 

[BaDBoY16]

pretty snazzy as for game terms what happens there ?

 

[Mat]

pretty snazzy as for game terms what happens there ?

You play every possible option in about 10 seconds and subsequently win every time

 

[BaDBoY16]

hahaha lol

 

[D.P.]

so *** will be the benefit of a quantum computer when they actually do start getting better why are they better than normal comp? didnt read wiki to much hard work and long words .

Instead of each bit in a register being a 0 or 1, it is both 0 and 1 at the smae time....
Given a 128bit search space, a 2*128qubit computer could search it in 1 cycle. A normal computer would take 2/\128 steps.
Thereby you can say could by to RSA encryption.

 

[D.P.]

pretty snazzy as for game terms what happens there ?

Absolutely nothing. Only a very few algorithms would see any advantage... to gfx it wont make a difference.

 

[D.P.]

That's another question altogether really. Computers don't "think", they execute instructions.

By definition human brains are computers....