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Comment Re:Do these machines actually do anything useful? (Score 3, Interesting) 74

They will not run Shor's algorithm and crack encryption but the class of problems they can tackle is still has very real world applications.

In fact, the factoring problem has a particularly nice algorithm in the adiabatic regime. It's just a multiplication circuit, where you clamp the outputs and "run it backwards" to deduce the inputs. It's not Shor's algorithm, but D-Wave is way ahead of the (gate-model quantum) competition in terms of factoring.

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