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...Usually, however, the tilt toward fringe sports favors the wealthy few who send their children to prep schools, undermining one of the real benefits of athletic recruiting. After all, how many students from public high schools in Roxbury or from the corn fields of Iowa have the opportunity to row crew, much less fence, sail or play squash...
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...
Every time you add a qubit to the string, the computing power doubles. A row of 11 atoms will carry out 2,048 simultaneous calculations, and a row of 12 will do 4,096. By the time you get to just 14 atoms, a speck still far too tiny to see, you can do more calculations in tandem (16,384) than the fastest supercomputer in the U.S.--a machine at Los Alamos National Laboratory so voracious that it draws several megawatts of power...
...calculating atoms could rapidly find the factors of numbers hundreds of digits long--a problem that would take the best conventional supercomputers billions of years. Since the codes used to protect corporate and military secrets are based on factoring, this development is of more than academic interest. Program a row of atoms to scan huge databases of information, and the result could be, among other things, the ultimate chess master, a quantum Deep Blue...
...loss to Princeton was Harvard’s fourth straight at home, and the third in a row that came down to the final shot. The Tigers’ last three wins at Lavietes Pavilion have come by a total of five points...