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Shor's algorithm

Shor · 1994

Shor’s algorithm is a quantum algorithm for integer factorisation, developed by Peter Shor in 1994. It runs in polynomial time in log N and places factorisation in BQP. It is asymptotically faster than the general number field sieve.