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So what is a Qubit, anyway?
A bit is the smallest unit of information that there is. On or off. A 0 or a 1. Classical computers, like the kind you and I have, can be thought of as machines that manipulate lots of these bits in order to do useful stuff (or, at least stuff that you want it to do - you can be the judge of whether that’s useful or not).
But quantum computers? Well, they’re just cooler, right? I mean, look, it’s got quantum right there in the name. Even their bits are cool. Because quantum bits- wait, no… ~qubits~ (yeah, that sounds cool) can even be 0s and 1s at the same time!…I mean, kinda. Sorta. How?