Comment by lousken
3 months ago
If this is the only reason to build quantum computers then it sounds pretty useless to me. https://xkcd.com/538/
3 months ago
If this is the only reason to build quantum computers then it sounds pretty useless to me. https://xkcd.com/538/
It is not the only reason. The best reason imo is to do quantum chemistry calculations, which are inordinately difficult to do accurately (O(n!) if you need to take into account all correlations)