Quantum Supremacy — Factoring Large Primes

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Quantum Computing Supremacy Fight — Google Versus IBM by Chris Roberts Multiply 1,048,589 by 1,048,601, and you’ll get 1,099,551,473,989. Does this blow your mind? It should, maybe! That 13-digit prime number is the largest-ever prime number to be factored by a quantum computer, one of a series of quantum computing-related breakthroughs (or at least claimed breakthroughs) achieved over the last few months of the decade. An IBM computer factored this very large prime number about two months after Google announced that it had achieved “quantum supremacy”—a clunky term for the claim, disputed by its rivals including IBM as well as others, that Google has a quantum machine that performed some math normal computers simply cannot.

What would really blow my mind?
Factoring complex numbers like quaternions.


P. S. Obligatory math joke:

Q: How do you solve the Ramen Hypothesis?
A: Use your big noodle.

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