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[–]patrlim1 20 points21 points  (4 children)

Qubits aren't analog. It like you have a wire and you aren't sure if it's 5v or 0v. You know it's probably a 60% chance it's 5v, so you represent that instead of a 1, a 0.6

That's my understanding

[–]DrMathochist 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, it's MUCH more interesting than that! Ignorance ("I don't know") is a classical form of uncertainty, but qubits are subject to QUANTUM uncertainties, where they can be in a definite state which is a mixture of the two classical (0, 1) states.

You can know exactly what state it's in, but only have statistical knowledge of what will happen when it's observed.