bogus comments on Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bogus 21 September 2012 02:34:43PM *  5 points [-]

Since quantum algorithms are inherently random, these three problems qualify:

  1. Solve the Deutsch-Jozsa problem in constant time.
  2. Search an unstructured database in O(sqrt(n)) time.
  3. Factorize integers in polynomial time.

Moreover, randomized algorithms are occasionally useful in a classical computer, since they give good expected performance even for some classes of degenerate inputs.