On Monday 25 October 2004 05:28, Luke Welsh wrote: > > My question is, what will happen when Quantum Computing becomes reality? > Who knows?
What do you mean by "reality"? QC works now, providing you only want to find the factors of 2^4-1. It will probably be decades (at least) before QCs with tens of millions of qubits become available in significant quantity - note that "conventional" applications of QC like breaking public key cryptography require only a few hundreds or thousands of qubits. We should be able to find a few more Mersenne primes before QC becomes much help. Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
