On 3/19/13, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote: >> I haven't read all the replies in detail, but why not use qubits >> instead of bits? It's boss, hip, trendy, and cool anyway... >> guaranteed to rachet up your sales ;) > > Aside from the fact that the largest quantum computers can only store > a few qubits and cost millions of dollars, and that quantum computers > don't buy you any extra storage (just processing speed for a small set > of algorithms, if we could ever build them), no reason. >
I thought if we took 2 qubits we could have it in states of either, some, all, whatever combo: 00, 01, 10, 11 eg: 01 and 11 might be a state at one point in time, 10 and 11 at the next... etc, which is more than the simple choice of the above four in ordinary binary. But reading elsewhere I have seen the claim that the information in the qubit is the same amount as the ordinary bit (I was browsing through a paper that Gentian Kasa posted here; he refers to Holevo's theorem). Mike A > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
