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Originally Posted by Malkavian
Optical is the way to go  |
Quantum computing is what they're looking at. It allows a single point of the chip to do not one calculation at a time but many. In fact the more points the more calculations can be carried out at once.
3 results in 6
4 results in 12
5 results in 20
6 results in 30
7 results in 42
and so on.
So far [last I read] they proved it using a chlorine atom to get the prime factors of 15, but that means proof of concept affirmed.