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>>qqqqqu+(OP)
Quantum Computers. Not like I'm five, but like I'm a software engineer who has a pretty decent understanding of how a classical turing machine works. I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say "qubits are like bits except they don't have to be just 1 or 0" without providing any coherent explanation of how that's useful. I've also heard that they can try every possible solution to a problem. What I don't understand is how a programmer is supposed to determine the correct solution when their computer is out in some crazy multiverse. I guess what I want is some pseudo code for quantum software.

>>arkanc+ps
not quantum computers per se but I had my aha moment when I saw quantum computing as "linear algebra with probability coefficients". It's mostly working on superpositioned qubits while doing the calculation and then making them (with linear transformations) as likely as possible to collapse on the solution (when "measured").