<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">In December 2018 researchers at Google solved a problem on their best quantum computer, but a low end laptop computer could solve it too. In January <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">of this year </span>an improved quantum computer solved a more complicated version of the problem that took a high end desktop computer to equal. By February they had to use Google's huge server network of conventional computers to do what the Quantum Computer did.</font><div><br><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Granted the problem chosen in the above was picked not because it was useful but because it best highlighted what a Quantum Computer could do; nevertheless a counterpart of Moore's law for conventional computers has been proposed called Neven's Law named after the head of </font></span></font><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif">Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif">Hartmut Neven<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span> </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Neven's Law states that <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">quantum computers are gaining computational power relative to conventional computers at a double exponential rate (</span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif">2^(2)^2 ,  </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif">2^(2)^3  ,   </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif">2^(2)^4 ,  </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif">2^(2)^5 ...)</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><font size="4">If <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">it turns out that </span>Neven's law<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> is anywhere close to being true then hold on to your buts because we're in for a bumpy ride.</span></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-nevens-law-describe-quantum-computings-rise-20190618/">A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise? </a><br></span></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div>