On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:27:48AM +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In other words, quantum computers are the modern-day equivalent of analog computers, not digital ones: just like in the early days of mechanical- and electronic-based analog machines, they can give answers more quickly, but with less accuracy than, a digital one.
No, I think you have fundamentally misunderstood quantum computing. The qubits are a digital bit with an extra state: a mixture (i.e. quantum entanglement) of the two binary states. On measurment a qubit returns only one of two values, binary true or binary false, just like a digital bit. The probability of it returning true (or false) is dependent on the mixture. That's most certainly not analogue: it's something fundamentally different. Cheers Michael.