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by upofadown 973 days ago
There is an argument out there that the 15 and 21 factorizations involved built in knowledge of the answer. If you accept that then there has been zero progress demonstrated so far for factoring numbers using quantum effects, not just a ridiculously small amount of progress.
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On the positive side, they haven't factored 17 and 19.
Is this a joke? Or...