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A Plagueing Question...

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A Plagueing Question...

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I really hate to bring this up, seeing as it is totally unrelated to BG@ (at least I think it is...)
Whomever may answer my question will get a a bowl of ice cream....

What is a CUBIT? Can anyone answer that? We shall see I suppose. Let us see if we have anyone people more intelligant then a Minerature-Giant Space Hamster....

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SOme kind of a cherub?! A love-angel or something like that?!

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Are you certain you don't mean a QUBIT? A qubit is a quantum bit, the counterpart in quantum computing to the binary digit or bit of classical computing.

But because an electron is in superposition it is so much more fun than your average bit. A single electron can compute 2^n in a single run. Now imagin what you could do with a system composed of, say, 1000 Image

There are a lot of articles on the net about this topic. Try to do a search on quantum computing.




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A cubit, in biblical terms, is the distance from your elbow to the tips of your fingers, I believe. Kinda like a foot, only longer. Well, depending on the foot or the forearm. Is this what you meant?
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I would never presume to be more intelligent than a Minerature-Giant Space Hamster, however.
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Cubit, also called COVID, unit of linear measure used by many ancient peoples.

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Congrats, Rail! You get the ice cream! You know your bibal....

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