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by pclmulqdq 1088 days ago
To load those bits into your quantum computer, you need to spend O(n) time. Most practical searches are O(n).
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Not neccesarily, you can calculate them on the fly.
How so you mean calculating them on the fly? You need to at least load the data to perform operations on it.
Grover's algorithm does not require you to load the data to be searched through if it can be generated instead. Grover's algorithm is not neccesarily searching through a list but searching through the output of a function. Sure if your function is an array index operator you need to load the underlying data, but many large search problems are not that.
That clears that up thanks.