elliptic
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Crucially, researchers estimate that breaking the elliptic curve cryptography protecting Bitcoin and most major cryptos could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits on a superconducting quantum computer.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
Now, the real question: What happens when quantum computers can break elliptic curve cryptography?
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 28, 2025
The conjecture would also settle some open questions in number theory and could become an important tool in the field—especially when combined with the concept of elliptic curves.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
In 1956, as Beckett was writing it, he described it as “Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than ‘Godot.’”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
If the absolute is real, the congruence-group is hyperbolic; if imaginary, it is elliptic; if the absolute is a plane and imaginary conic, the group is parabolic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
