Sunday, May 25, 2008

Quantum computing for dummies

If you have trouble comprehending that everything you see on the web resolves to Yes/No states in the form of binary 1s and 0s, you're really going to have trouble understanding quantum computing, which among other things takes advantage of the quantum physics wave-particle duality inspired concept of something being two states at once. A bit can be either a 1 or a 0, a qubit can be both at the same time! It's hard to wrap your mind around, so fortunately the folks at SEED Magazine offers this one page guide to quantum computing. I'll come back to this topic in a "bit" (pun intended) as I feel this is an evolutionary step in computing.

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