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Thursday, December 20, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/science/20QUAN.html Efforts to Transform Computers Reach Milestone By GEORGE JOHNSON In an important milestone toward making powerful computers that exploit the mind-bending possibilities of calculating with individual atoms, scientists at the I.B.M. Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., are announcing today that they have performed the most complex such calculation yet: factoring the number 15. The answer itself was no surprise: 3 and 5, the numbers that divide into 15, leaving no remainder. But the exercise that led to that simple result — the first factoring of a number with an exotic device called a quantum computer — holds the promise of one day solving problems now considered impossible, and cracking seemingly impenetrable codes.....
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