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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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