On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">> So the answer to my original question appears to be that you can use it for general purpose computing, </div></blockquote><div><br>In theory you could construct a general purpose quantum computer by having a bunch of entangled quantum logic gates, but that approach is very hard to do and so far it's only been done for a few qbits, and the biggest problem it has solved is finding out that the factors of 15 are 3 and 5. The D-wave computer is not a general purpose computer and D-wave never claimed it was, but if it can solve <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> QUBO problems dramatically faster than conventional computers as they say then that will change the world because protein folding is a QUBO problem and solving that would not only </span>revolutionize medicine but also be a huge stepping stone toward full scale Drexler style Nanotechnology. On the other hand D-wave could turn out to be another cold fusion type fiasco, we should know the truth in a year or less. <br>
<br> John K Clark<br><br><br><br><br> <br></div></div>