In today's issue of the journal "Nature" it's reported that a Quantum Computer
has factored the number 15. The answer (3 and 5) will surprise few but this
is a real Quantum Computer, I've been wondering for a long time when it would
happen, it's a milestone. It proves there has been a lot of advances on the
hardware side of things over the last few years, it also proves that Peter Shor's
quantum factoring algorithm works in reality not just on paper.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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