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Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm | Infinite Series

PBS Infinite Series explains how Shor's algorithm lets a quantum computer break RSA encryption, building on earlier episodes about cryptography and the math of quantum computers. It works through the idea step by step.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a clear, worked explanation of Shor's algorithm for building intuition.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
PBS Infinite Series
Topic
quantum computing
Format
explainer
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2019

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From the original HN conversations

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  • You should check out these videos, one of them might give you an understanding! - [LINK] | Quantum Computers Explained - [LINK] | The Mathematics of Quantum Computers - [VIDEO] | Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm - [LINK] | A series by the …

    adamisntdead on Hacker News · 2018-04
    In Qusim.py – A toy multi-qubit quantum computer simulator written in Python

  • It's not that they can execute a computation faster in the traditional sense. It is that you can exploit the quantum behaviour in some types of computation (e.g. factoring primes) to make the answer more probable, and thus more likely to be "observed", when you …

    msclrhd on Hacker News · 2018-11
    In The Case Against Quantum Computing

  • I'd recommend Charles Petzold's Code: [LINK] Which does a great job building up computing from bits all the way to a adders, CPUs, and assembly language (with the historical background around it too). I think the easiest way to get an idea for Quantum Computing …

    fossuser on Hacker News · 2019-10
    In Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off

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