From: Christian Szegedy (szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 08:08:09 MDT
New Light-Based Computer Runs At Quantum Speeds:
citation from
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010515075526.htm:
> times to find the location. If the database in question
> were the Manhattan phone book, the search for a
> single phone number could take a conventional
> computer several million searches, while a
> light-based device could pinpoint the number in just
> one.
Ha ha ha!
They've never heard about binary search :)
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