Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog (eprint.iacr.org)

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[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

Anyone able to find the prime factors of 35 in their head is able to outperform state of the art quantum computers.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

The dog outperformed the quantum computer despite not having any notion of what a number was, so I think any human could manage. Possibly including dead and/or unborn humans.

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