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melvinmelih12/09/20243 repliesview on HN

> It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

If it's not, what would be your explanation for this significant improvement then?


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shawabawa312/09/2024

Quantum computing can perform certain calculations much faster than classical computing in the same way classical computing can perform certain calculations much faster than an abacus

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Ar-Curunir12/09/2024

I mean, that's like saying GPUs operate in parallel universes because they can do certain things thousands of times faster than CPUs.