Quantum Computing Simply Explained

Imagine I asked you to find your phone number, which you told me, but it’s hidden somewhere in one of the thousands of books in the library across the street! With a regular computer, it’s like you’d have to flip through every single page of every book one by one, which could take forever.

But a quantum computer is like having a magical helper that can check lots of books at the same time, using special tricks with tiny particles called qubits. These qubits can be in many places at once, so the quantum computer can look through all the books faster and find the number.