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Equation 17 · Part 1 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

Symbol E

EE
EE

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the energy.

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E is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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Lloyd used the same bound to price computation itself: no amount of clever engineering lets a system with energy E execute logical operations faster than about 2E/π\piℏ\hbar per second, a ceiling with nothing to do with any particular hardware [ 5 ] .

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mutually orthogonal states in elapsed time t [ 3 ] . Lloyd used the same bound to price computation itself: no amount of clever engineering lets a system with energy E execute logical operations faster than about 2E/π\piℏ\hbar per second, a ceiling with nothing to do with any particular hardware [ 5 ] .

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