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by yccs27 1428 days ago
Unfortunately, even though a quantum computer "manipulates wavefunctions", you can still only measure the outcome once. The magic has to happen somewhere in between state preparation and measurement. It's more like a computer with an inbuilt RNG - but if you can reach the same result via multiple execution paths, the probabilities don't just add, but they can interfere like in-phase/out-of-phase oscillatins.