AFAIK it uses spheres instead of positive and negative binary magnets. So the direction the electron hits the sphere changes what the data is. Instead of having only 1s and 0s (representing positive and negative charges), you have 1 through 360.
The hard part has been the math. Humans like to do things one at a time when it comes to numbers. In “1+2+5” you add 1 and 2 together, then 3 and 5. This is easy to represent in binary. But when you can do hundreds of things simultaneously? Our brains don’t work that way and it’s difficult coming up with programming languages for that type of computing. On quantum computers, you’re basically stuck programming everything in the equivalent to hexadecimal, rather than something like Python or C.
I could also be talking out my ass because this was explained to me like 20 years ago in high school programming when I was jacked up on Mountain Dew.
AFAIK it uses spheres instead of positive and negative binary magnets. So the direction the electron hits the sphere changes what the data is. Instead of having only 1s and 0s (representing positive and negative charges), you have 1 through 360.
The hard part has been the math. Humans like to do things one at a time when it comes to numbers. In “1+2+5” you add 1 and 2 together, then 3 and 5. This is easy to represent in binary. But when you can do hundreds of things simultaneously? Our brains don’t work that way and it’s difficult coming up with programming languages for that type of computing. On quantum computers, you’re basically stuck programming everything in the equivalent to hexadecimal, rather than something like Python or C.
I could also be talking out my ass because this was explained to me like 20 years ago in high school programming when I was jacked up on Mountain Dew.