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Physicists Triumph at Guess My Number

FEB 01, 2000
Quantum entanglement looks like telepathy when three physicists get together on a game show.
Andrew M. Steane
Wim van Dam

Let’s meet tonight’s lucky contestants, ladies and gentlemen, all ready to play Guess My Number, for the grand prize of “ONE MILLION DOLLARS!”

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Andrew M. Steane, Centre for Quantum Computation, University of Oxford, England.

Wim van Dam, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Volume 53, Number 2

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