{"id":1657,"date":"2021-11-18T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2023-09-20T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:43:18","slug":"quantum-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Quantum counting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>IBM claims advance in quantum computing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 46%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Coco finds it most appropriate that the BBC has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-59320073\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that the Eagle has, at 127, twice as many qubits as the previous IBM processor. <br><br>Now 127 is an odd number, so it is impossible, so his simple understanding of numbers tells him, that it should be exactly twice another integer. <\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/121589335_quantum20summit_hero20and20carousel20template_1920x7201-1024x576.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/121589335_quantum20summit_hero20and20carousel20template_1920x7201-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IBM claims advance in quantum computing\" class=\"wp-image-1658 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/121589335_quantum20summit_hero20and20carousel20template_1920x7201-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/121589335_quantum20summit_hero20and20carousel20template_1920x7201-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/121589335_quantum20summit_hero20and20carousel20template_1920x7201-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/121589335_quantum20summit_hero20and20carousel20template_1920x7201-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/121589335_quantum20summit_hero20and20carousel20template_1920x7201.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>However, being a quantum processor one may safely conclude that the previous one had 63 or 64 qubits. Shr\u00f6dinger knows why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM claims advance in quantum computing Coco finds it most appropriate that the BBC has reported that the Eagle has, at 127, twice as many qubits as the previous IBM processor. Now 127 is an odd number, so it is impossible, so his simple understanding of numbers tells him, that it should be exactly twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}