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> Hear the story of Shor's Algorithm, straight from the source, Peter Shor.

Shor's part of the story starts in '81.

Though, I generally agree with the it is hard to make predictions that far out. We've got the math to do some higher things, but we still don't have flying cars and fusion power.




Shor being alive in 1981 is not the same thing as saying shor's algorithm was discovered in 1981.


The seeds of Shor's algorithm was when he went to a lecture on negative probability by Feynman in 1981 as a graduate student. Shor's part of the storm starts in 1981.




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