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sterexx t1_j2hootb wrote

Reply to comment by lunaticloser in can someone explain the difference between quantum computing and classic computing in simpler words? how can quantum computing benefit us from a consumer perspective? by village_aapiser

Ah okay! Yeah it’s fascinating how long they’ve been able to work on this stuff without having any actual hardware. Kinda like Turing’s machine!

If you can imagine how the machine works, you can design programs for it. Shor’s algorithm, which breaks RSA and other venerable public key cryptography systems (if you had a quantum computer to run it on), was made in 1994

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