<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">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>