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Recommend reading: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-since-Democritus-Aar...

Lots of interesting stuff about quantum computing and quantum algorithms in there. Some interesting tidbits:

    - var x; var y = x 
    - print(x) <--- Impossible, quantum information can't be duplicated. x no longer exists.
And:

    - var y
    - var x = f(y) <--- The value of y is now changed. You must undo f with f' to return y to it's original state. 
I'm sure some QPL's will build this sort of stuff in so you don't have to worry about it, but definitely interesting reading~

(this is probably more directly relevant to programming though, and free: http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/qml/compiler/jjg-thesis.pdf)



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