Below is an extrapolation of Sam Jaques’ extrapolation (of that famous graph) of Gidney’s algorithm attacking RSA-2048

When I reached out to Craig to ask if it could be extrapolated, he said "I would be wary of a simple extrapolation [...] There's probably a simple rule but I wouldn't trust it until simulations confirmed it." I ignored this advice and invented a simple rule just to make a nice chart

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Factoring is not a good benchmark to track Q-day

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> Below is an extrapolation of Sam Jaques’ extrapolation (of that famous graph) of Gidney’s algorithm attacking RSA-2048

From Sam Jaques' page:

> When I reached out to Craig to ask if it could be extrapolated, he said "I would be wary of a simple extrapolation \[...] There's probably a simple rule but I wouldn't trust it until simulations confirmed it." I ignored this advice and invented a simple rule just to make a nice chart

I'm sorry....wHaT?!