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Subject: Re: Quantum Computers?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:52:15 10/26/02

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On October 25, 2002 at 17:19:23, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On October 25, 2002 at 16:36:50, Robin Smith wrote:
>
>It is nonsense to see postings as: "how fast will my DIEP run
>on a quantum computer".
>
>Let's say i first look forward to run on a 512 processor SGI
>machine from NWO at world champs in Graz, november 2003, if i
>can get the system time for the full machine that is...
>
>For the coming so many years no chessprogram will have equal power
>in a single cpu, even if that's a hardware cpu :)
>
>But for the speed of computers, if it is true that hardware gets
>each 2 years about 2 times faster. Then in 2066 we will be capable
>of getting 10^40 clocks system time. That's quite a lot.


The doubling canNOT continue forever.  We eventually reach the subatomic
particle level, where physics is VERY different.  In fact, that's where quantum
mechanics takes over.




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