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A bit that refuses to choose, until you force it to.
means The basic unit of quantum information, able to represent a blend of 0 and 1 at once rather than just one or the other.
from A 1990s coinage blending 'quantum' and 'bit,' credited to physicist Benjamin Schumacher, who needed a name for information measured in the strange currency of quantum mechanics rather than classical computing's binary coin.
- superposition
- holds 0 and 1 simultaneously until measured
- entanglement
- one qubit's fate can lock to another's instantly
- fragility
- a stray vibration can erase the calculation
- payoff
- n qubits represent 2^n states at once