Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e629021484...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, on 12/09/2013 at 02:51 PM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se said: OT, but does anyone know where I can find a REAL explanation of how Quantum computing works ? Have you read the wiki article? Anything more detailed

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-09 Thread Ed Finnell
_www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24934786_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24934786) (39 minute uptime). IIRC IBM built a couple of super cooled processors for NSA. Took 24 hrs to warm up to maintain and another 24 to cool it back down to operational state. In a

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-09 Thread Thomas Berg
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop Quantum computing is here. These people are already selling quantum mainframes with humungous capabilities to the government and industry (e.g. Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin):http://www.dwavesys.com/Nothing wrong

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-09 Thread John Gilmore
Look at Warner, Marc, et al. Potential for spin-based information processing in a thin-film molecular semiconductor, Nature, volume 503, pp. 504-508. There are helpful color figures; there is a decent bibliography; you will find it readable if you know something about the physics of

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-09 Thread Thomas Berg
] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 5:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop Look at Warner, Marc, et al. Potential for spin-based information processing in a thin-film molecular semiconductor, Nature, volume 503, pp. 504

Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-08 Thread Ed Finnell
_Ternary flip-flap-flop_ (http://www.goldenmuseum.com/1411FlipFlap_engl.html) This is pretty old stuff. Think the advantages were canceled out by 'indeterminate' states. Some of the new quantum stuff has similar possibilities.

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 12/08/2013 05:23 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: _Ternary flip-flap-flop_ (http://www.goldenmuseum.com/1411FlipFlap_engl.html) This is pretty old stuff. Think the advantages were canceled out by 'indeterminate' states. Some of the new quantum stuff has similar possibilities. The Soviet

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 20:58:27 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: On 12/08/2013 05:23 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: _Ternary flip-flap-flop_ (http://www.goldenmuseum.com/1411FlipFlap_engl.html) This is pretty old stuff. Think the advantages were canceled out by 'indeterminate' states. Some of the new quantum

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-08 Thread Harry Wahl
of the word hexadecimal, I think you're arguing the evolving conceptual semantics of a polyseme. No winning when you debate something like that, a little dialectic however, goes a long way.Harry Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:36:20 -0600 From: paulgboul...@aim.com Subject: Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Packer
To my mind quad made more sense than tri. But as others have said the game moved on. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker