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notarobot123today at 7:18 AM0 repliesview on HN

"The Shor of Damocles" - what a metaphor.

I thought it was a typo at first but wikipedia explained:

The Sword of Damocles is an ancient Greek moral anecdote, an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power.

Shor's algorithm is a quantum algorithm for finding the prime factors of an integer