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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:10:08 -0800 (PST) From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> Subject: Re: FCPUNX:comp.html
However quantum computers so far envisaged (but not yet built) can only do a few steps before they lose quantum coherence.
So far factoring a four bit number is well beyond the state of the art in quantum computation.
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