[got "a little" off-topic] New paradigms [was: request: python style decorators / aspect orientation]

[Bill Baxter]

Oskar Linde wrote:
> Daniel Keep skrev:
> 
>> QC is all about stacking the odds so that given a particular number of
>> samples, you have a reasonable chance of getting the right answer.  This
>> is how things like Shor's algorithm for factoring primes in polynomial
>> time work (and yes; it *does* actually work.  People have actually used
>> it to factor small primes).

That's nothing.  I can factor large primes in my head.  Try me!  The 
bigger the prime the better!

> I find that very hard to believe... :)

I was thinking you were serious, but on second thought maybe we're just 
pointing out the same thing here...

--bb