{"id":100146,"date":"2019-12-25T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-quantum-computing-decade-is-coming-heres-why-you-should-care"},"modified":"2019-12-25T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T23:05:39","slug":"the-quantum-computing-decade-is-coming-heres-why-you-should-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-quantum-computing-decade-is-coming-heres-why-you-should-care","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Quantum Computing\u2019 Decade Is Coming\u2014Here\u2019s Why You Should Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ability to process qubits is what allows a quantum computer to perform functions a binary computer simply cannot, like computations involving 500-digit numbers. To do so quickly and on demand might allow for highly efficient traffic flow. It could also render current encryption keys mere speedbumps for a computer able to replicate them in an instant. #QuantumComputing<\/p>\n

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Multiply 1,048,589 by 1,048,601, and you\u2019ll get 1,099,551,473,989. Does this blow your mind? It should, maybe! That 13-digit prime number is the largest-ever prime number to be factored by a quantum computer<\/a>, one of a series<\/a> of quantum computing-related breakthroughs (or at least claimed<\/a> breakthroughs) achieved over the last few months of the decade.<\/p>\n

An IBM computer factored this very large prime number about two months after Google<\/a> announced<\/a> that it had achieved \u201cquantum supremacy\u201d\u2014a clunky term for the claim, disputed by its rivals<\/a> including IBM as well as others, that Google<\/a> has a quantum machine that performed some math normal computers simply cannot.<\/p>\n

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The ability to process qubits is what allows a quantum computer to perform functions a binary computer simply cannot, like computations involving 500-digit numbers. To do so quickly and on demand might allow for highly efficient traffic flow. It could also render current encryption keys mere speedbumps for a computer able to replicate them in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,418,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-internet","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}