Lucas on Future

Shouldn't the question be "what *are* the prime factors"?

Here's the article for those that are interested:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1398

Also, the title should more go like this:
"First Ever Complete Implementation of Shor's Algorithm"
or something in that direction. In fact I'm not even sure that is true but the paper is neat, check it out.

two is also a prime number, professor brainiac. looks like you need to go back to your teeny-tiny drawing board.

Despite what the article says, this is not the first time a quantum computer has factored a number via Shor's algorithm.

"2001 - First execution of Shor's algorithm at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Stanford University. The number 15 was factored using 1018 identical molecules, each containing seven active nuclear spins."

From this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing

link

Ah, yes - thank you, ted. When they come up with quantum spell and grammar check, I'll be the first to sign up.