Qubit vs Byte - What's the difference?
qubit | byte |
(computing) A quantum bit; the unit of quantum information; a bit in a quantum computer capable of being in a state of superposition.
* 2012 , ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist , 25 Feb 2012:
(computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
(computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
In computing terms the difference between qubit and byte
is that qubit is a quantum bit; the unit of quantum information; a bit in a quantum computer capable of being in a state of superposition while byte is a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits.qubit
English
(wikipedia qubit)Noun
(en noun)- Each extra qubit in a quantum machine doubles the number of simultaneous operations it can perform.
Synonyms
* qbit * quantum bitDerived terms
* multiqubitSee also
* bit, nat, banbyte
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia byte)- The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.