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Quantum Speed-up of Computations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Itamar Pitowsky
Itamar Pitowsky*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, the Hebrew University
*
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel; itamarp@vms.huji.ac.il.
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 69 , Issue S3 , September 2002 , pp. S168 - S177
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