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by gjm11 4272 days ago
As I said, all the concrete numbers in what I wrote are crude order-of-magnitude approximations. The original question was whether a quantum computer with just a few qubits would be comparable in power to a conventional desktop computer; the answer is a clear no whether the point at which quantum computers become genuinely useful is at (say) 100 or 1000 qubits.