Rizwan Virk
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And it turns out that's exactly the number of worlds they have in that game because that is, what, 64 bits.
That's the biggest number you can get if you use 64 bits.
Okay, so come back to โ that's exponential growth.
And so with a quantum computer, theoretically โ and these are pretty new right now, right?
IBM has one that you can actually program online.
Everyone's trying to figure out how to make these qubits stable and work.
But the basic idea โ and I don't know what number we're up to.
For a while, it was like you could only have four-bits qubits, kind of like going back to the old โ
When we were young, the Apple II or whatever came out.
Before that, there were these small 8-bit processor-based kits that people would assemble.
They just couldn't have a lot of data because they just couldn't keep track of that many bits.
That's where quantum computers are today.
But the idea is if you can have 64 qubits, you can instantaneously solve problems.
a problem that is exponential because you can explore all of those at the same time and then when you measure the result.
Now, nobody knows exactly how this works, but the two explanations, okay, coming back, sorry, I know I'm kind of, I'm wondering a bit.