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A Re-evaluation of Shor's Algorithm

John W. Cooper

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Abstract

Shor's algorithm is examined critically from the standpoint of it's eventual use to obtain the factors of large integers.

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    • Perhaps I don't, but your description doesn't seem to contradict my point that scalability is distinct from competitive with classical computing. Perhaps people also implicitly mean "scales faster than a classical computer", in which case I did indeed misunderstand. On the topic…

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