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Old 12-16-2007, 06:10 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The_Heretic View Post
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.
Too far out I work in optical, and we are ready to hit the street with functional materials now. Well, as soon i fish out all the dead flies anyway. (they like the taste of my heating oil). Not with chips though... communications devices.
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