I doubt I've ever seen someone so completely miss the point of a module. Q::S isn't about speed, it's about showing the power of quantum operations, the any and all functions. It's a simulation of a machine. And yes, the primality tester is O(1). It's just using different units than you are used to. Note that all big-Oh run time complexities are in numbers of elementary operations. For instance, in computational geometry deciding whether a point lies right or left of a line is an O(1) operation, regardless how many bits we need to express the coordinates of the points when we would actually simulate such operations on a current day device. In the world of Q::S we have different elementary operations.

Finally it should be pointed out that Q::S was mainly intended as a joke. Most people got it - but some didn't.

-- Abigail

In reply to Re: about Coolness, Impatience and Complexity by Abigail
in thread about Coolness, Impatience and Complexity by Blop

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