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Google achieves "quantum supremacy"

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Gail
 Post Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:39 pm 
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At a research lab in California, a mathematical calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years was done in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Google said in a paper in the science journal Nature.
Ordinary computers store data and perform computations as a series of bits that are either 1 or 0. By contrast, a quantum computer uses qubits, which can be 1 and 0 at the same time, at least until they are measured.

Whatever the heck that means.
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BDAqua
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I sure would like to understand it. :)
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Gail
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Got it.
Thanks Jonah.
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