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6 Post author: PhilGoetz 14 October 2009 04:52PM

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Comment author: pengvado 15 October 2009 04:24:34PM *  1 point [-]

All of the bonds and atoms in a protein are "computing" simultaneously,

And there are at most N^2 of them, so that doesn't transform exponential into tractable. It's not even a Grover speedup (2^N -> 2^(N/2)), which we do know how to get out of a quantum computer.