Note that the answer has to be expressed in just the 128 bits I can observe. That is a trillion computations. If I could handle 256 cats, I could do a trillion trillion computations in the same time.
Note that the answer has to be expressed in just the 128 bits I can observe. That is a trillion computations. If I could handle 256 cats, I could do a trillion trillion computations in the same time.
With cats, it is hard to build such a device, and when this was first suggested, it was thought that it might be too hard even with atomic spins. In the last two years, it has been done for several atomic spins, and error corrected codes have been demonstrated. No question that it works at some level. When will it be applied? We probably know to what, first: code breaking. No present code would be secure. How to fight that?--fire with fire.