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What is Quantum Computing? | Tom’s Hardware

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WHAT IS QUANTUM COMPUTING?

Quantum computing is an analog to the computing we know and love. But while computing leverages the classical transistor, quantum computing takes advantage of the world of the infinitely small — the quantum world — to run calculations on specialized hardware known as Quantum Processing Units (QPU). Qubits are the quantum equivalent of transistors. And while the latter’s development is increasingly constrained by quantum effects and difficulties in further miniaturization, quantum computing already thrives in this world.

Quantum refers to the smallest indivisible unit of any physical particle. This means quantum computing’s unit, the qubit, is usually made from single atoms or even from subatomic particles such as electrons and photons. But while transistors can only ever represent two states (either 1 or 0, which gave way to the binary world within our tech), qubits can represent all possible states: 0, 1, and all variations within the combination of both states at the same time.

Source: What is Quantum Computing? | Tom’s Hardware

Keyboard Shortcuts

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Chromebook

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Reference

REGEXP (RE2) Escape Sequences

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Kudos: https://github.com/google/re2/blob/main/doc/syntax.txt

(Used by Google Docs for Find & Replace)

Escape sequences:
\a bell (== \007)
\f form feed (== \014)
\t horizontal tab (== \011)
\n newline (== \012)
\r carriage return (== \015)
\v vertical tab character (== \013)
\* literal «*», for any punctuation character «*»
\123 octal character code (up to three digits)
\x7F hex character code (exactly two digits)
\x{10FFFF} hex character code
\C match a single byte even in UTF-8 mode
\Q…\E literal text «…» even if «…» has punctuation