Google’s quantum supremacy algorithm has found its first practical use

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A quantum computing chip from Google. The firm has now made practical use of a quantum algorithm

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Google is putting its supreme algorithm to work. In October, the company announced that they had reached quantum supremacy – the point at which a quantum computer can complete a task that no classical computer could practically achieve – with an algorithm that could verify that a given set of numbers was randomly distributed. Now, that algorithm is finding its first practical use as a random number generator.

Alan Ho at Google announced this new application at the Q2B conference in California on 12 …

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