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		adrianN on July 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Unprecedented' discovery could propel quantum com... A k-qbit computer's state is actually a unit vector in 2^k dimensional complex space. This exponential blowup makes it difficult to simulate quantum computers on classical systems.

saulrh on July 6, 2012 [–]

Yeah, my bad. I think I crosswired "computer" and "bit" when I was typing "2D vector".

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