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by cantos 4778 days ago
Real quantum computers don't exist. If one did exist it would need to factor numbers much larger than 4096 bits efficiently for it to be considered a real quantum computer.
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And all true scotsman wear kilts. We consider 8bit computers real computers even though they can't run windows 8. The same can be said for quantum computers, a 64qubit quibit quantum CPU could be vary useful even if it can't factor 4096bit numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit

PS: We have solid state 4bit quantum computers right now. They may not be useful for much, but that's in part because we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars perfecting classical computers.

Quantum computers do exist. But it's hard to build large ones. The largest one so far was able to factor 143=11x13. http://phys.org/news/2012-04-largest-factored-quantum-algori...