🤯 Oh boy, another thrilling chapter in the saga of quantum computers struggling to factor the number 21—without a cheat sheet! Remember folks, when in doubt, just skip the irrelevant gates! 😂🔢 Keep dreaming, quantum enthusiasts!
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Extrapolating quantum factoring

It doesn't look like quantum computers will break public key encryption any time soon if you extrapolate from the size of numbers factored so far.

John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

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