<div dir="ltr"><br><div>I understand how to program a computer to factor number.</div><div>But how is this done with a quantum computer?</div><div>Is it all quantum hardware/configure?  Or is some part of that software?</div><div>And what would it mean to load a program into a quantum computer or what is it all about?</div><div>Brent</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 5:09 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Just a few years ago the best a Quantum Computer could do is figure out that the factors of 15 were 3 and 5 but things have improved, very recently a Quantum Computer figured out that the factors of 1,099,551,473,989  are 1,048,589 <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>and 1,048,601.</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227387-quantum-computer-sets-new-record-for-finding-prime-number-factors/#ixzz680feeWTI" target="_blank">Quantum computer sets new record for finding prime number factors</a></font><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><br></div></div>
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