Tor LillqvistThis is excellent:
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
Selected hilarious quotations:
We use the UK form “factorise” here in place of the US variants “factorize” or “factor” in order to avoid the 40% tariff on the US term.
Similarly, we refer to an abacus as “an abacus” rather than a digital computer, despite the fact that it relies on digital manipulation to effect its computations.
The VIC-20 was a popular home computer in the 1980s that used the then popular 6502 microprocessor from 1975. Since this processor uses transistors, and transistors work by using quantum effects, a 6502 is as much a quantum device as is a D-Wave “quantum computer”
