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The basic idea behind the algorithm is to take a number, n, and through a series of passes, eliminate the non-prime numbers. What remains when you’re done is the set of primes you are after.
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Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dogComputer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology ...
In 1994, Peter Shor, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, came up with a quantum algorithm that calculates the prime factors of a large number, vastly more efficiently than a ...
In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor introduced a quantum-computing algorithm that could reduce the time it takes to find the prime factors of large numbers from billions of years using a ...
In 2006, Ralf Schützhold and Gernot Schaller at the Dresden Technical University in Germany worked out an adiabatic algorithm to factorise a number using a pool of qubits.
A million-dollar puzzle relating to prime numbers could be tackled using only a mid-sized quantum computer. There is a race to find ever bigger primes , but no way to predict when the next one ...
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