For instance, quantum computers are aimed at doing tasks that are too complex for a classical computer form.

例如，量子计算机的目标是完成传统计算机形式无法完成的复杂任务。

In reality, the bank's traders, assisted by models running on classical computers, managed an annual return of 19%.

在现实中，该银行交易员在经典计算机上运行的模型的辅助下实现了19%的年回报率。

Classical computers encode information in bits.

经典计算机以位编码信息。

Classical computers process data in the form of bits.

经典计算机以位的形式处理数据。

“There's currently no problem that the D-Wave machine has been shown to solve faster than a classical computer, ” says Dr Aaronson.

“现在毋庸置疑的是，D-ware的计算机曾经比一般的计算机解决问题要快。”

In theory, quantum computers could outstrip the computational limits of classical computers.

理论上，量子计算机可以超越经典计算机的计算极限。

These qubits can solve problems exponentially faster than classical digital computers.

这些量子比特解决问题的速度比传统数字计算机快得多。

Classical computers are designed to follow specific inflexible rules.

经典计算机旨在遵循 特定的不灵活规则。

Two are based on lattice problems, a type of mathematical puzzle challenging for quantum and classical computers alike.

其中两个基于晶格问题，这是一种对量子和经典计算机都具有挑战性的数学难题。

Quantum computers can simulate chemical and biological processes that are far beyond the reach of our classical computers.

量子计算机可以模拟化学和生物过程，这是我们的经典计算机无法企及的。

For one thing, they would probably be much more rapid than any classical computer at searching a database-an elemental operation with a thousand uses.

首先，量子计算机检索数据库——有着丰富用途的一种基本操作——的速度或将远超任何一款经典计算机。

In classical computers, bits are generated using transistors.

在经典计算机中， 位是使用晶体管生成的。

So in classical computers, you start with a set of bits.

所以在经典计算机中， 你从一组位开始。

A classical computer has to methodically walk down every dead end until it finds its way out.

经典计算机必须有条不紊地走下每一个死胡同， 直到找到出路。

Our experiment showed the ability to perform a computation with few enough errors at a large enough scale to outperform a classical computer, he said.

" 我们的实验表明，我们有能力在执行足够大规模的计算时以足够少的错误超越传统计算机。"

But the idea of subatomic particles in superpositions is central to understanding how quantum computers are different to classical computers.

但是亚原子粒子处于叠加状态的想法对于理解量子计算机与经典计算机的不同之处至关重要。

Why are classical computers not able to to deal with that?

为什么经典计算机无法处理这个问题？

One way to imagine this is that the bits in a classical computer are coins that are either heads or tails.

一种想象方式是， 经典计算机中的位是硬币， 要么是正面， 要么是反面。

It just finds a solution that D-Wave says is better than a classical computer.

它只是找到了 D-Wave 所说的比传统计算机更好的解决方案。

But all that D-Wave is doing is finding a solution that's better than classical computers.

但 D-Wave 所做的只是寻找一种比传统计算机更好的解决方案。