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Ordinarily a row of 10 bits (think of them as tiny switches turned on or off) can hold any one of a thousand different numbers (1,024 to be exact). But a row of 10 qubits, because of its quantum nature, can hold all the numbers at once. To find the square root of every number from 1 to 1,000, you would load them all onto a row of 10 atoms, perform a single calculation, and--voila--all the answers would appear...
...that the scientific community is almost unanimous in its findings about the global effects of increasing carbon emissions and the threat of subsequent environmental disasters. The Earth is extremely delicate and relatively small changes can throw off its equilibrium. As a human race we cannot wait to discover the exact consequences of our actions. For example, in 1998, sudden flooding in China’s Yangtze basin due to deforestation caused over $20 billion worth of damage. Nobody could have been sure that this flooding would have occured until it actually...
When Maas is given the chance to make his case to an ever-impartial FM reporter, he feigns confidence. “Well, I’m pretty sure that I would have answered every question the exact opposite of what they put, so then I would be everyone’s best match...
...Wilkins was able to exact revenge upon her junior squash nemesis Amy Gross. After an agonizing, five-game loss to Gross last weekend, Wilkins stormed back with a 9-3, 9-7, 9-4 defeat...
...Harvard women’s hockey team didn’t have to wait long to exact revenge on St. Lawrence for the 3-3 tie on Friday night...