Dr Gail Iles explains what a quantum computer is
Following reports Google has created a quantum computer which performs calculations faster than the worlds best super computers, Dr Gail Iles explains what a quantum computer is.
She says super computers and “classical” computers use the same binary system but quantum computers use qubits.
“It kind of manipulates the properties of matter right down at the quantum level and instead of these noughts and ones, it uses these things called qubits which can have nought, one, or both nought and one,” she told Tom Elliott, filling in for Neil Mitchell.
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