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      "text": "“It is a scientific toy. In terms of its computational capacity, it’s worse than your cell phone. When I say worse than your cell phone, a cell phone is at least 15 to 20 years old because you just don’t compare it with modern cell phones that are very powerful computational machines. If you compare the computational capacity of IonQ’s best available trapped ion quantum computer to a classical machine, then yes, it would be worse than a 20-year-old phone. It would probably be equivalent to a computer from 1950 to 1960.” - Leading quantum computing researcher who has published papers with IonQ’s founders",
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