Quantum Computing – Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2008

13 thoughts on “Quantum Computing – Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2008”

1. thanks

2. The kids are bored and thinking "WTF is this guy on about?" Don't blame them, i thought that too!! HAHAHA

3. the one with 9 piece would have 9! possible positions whic is about 363000.
   why would it take a computer a day to solve it unless you are running on an iphone?

4. @ayoyoayoyo They have rotational permutations also.

5. @dmcalinden 3.5E5*3^9 is about 7E9. assuming a processor running at 1Ghz can make E9 calculation per second it would take 7 seconds.

   still 4 orders of magnitude from a day

6. The perfect school time-table is easy: Just fill every slot with: Free time. Perfect.

7. do those kids understand this?

8. It's a sufficiently large enough number to allow an impressive number of solutions. Basically, it looks impressive.

9. To compute 300 1's and 0"s, the computer would need to do 300^300 readings instead of just 300. 300^300 is a huge number.

10. There maybe a chance that one student or child in there possibly does understand this maybe the next Einstein or Hawking only they are a mix of bill gates as well.

    Remember this is the royal society so there more than like are children present here who are of excellence.

    There maybe children in there who are also very promising and who do not understand a word the guy is saying but who will be influenced by such displays on many levels.

    It is good to show children complexity.

11. After looking numerous videos, I finally understood Qubit with this video.
    Well explained!

12. I totally and utterly agree with you on that one. Farraday ,Watt, Einstein and Darwin were all children once.They changed the world because they are men of science and learning. In my view, politicians ,rock stars and celebs don't change the world…Influence it maybe…but if you want change we have to be educated to the world around us.

13. The kids look painfully bored.

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