s are said to be superposed. This allows a quantum computer to calculate exponentially, rather than linearly, as the number of logic gates increases. Grover’s algorithm and Shor’s algorithm use this superposition to speed up factoring numbers and looking things up in databases, respectively. Grover’s alg

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