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Probably the best troll paper of the year: “Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog” eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

“...We refer to an abacus as “an abacus” rather than a digital computer, despite the fact that it relies on digital manipulation to effect its computations. Finally, we refer to a dog as “a dog” because even the most strenuous mental gymnastics can’t really make it sound like it’s a computer.”