Boolean function is constant or not ∗

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  • Fabio Benatti
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We study the probability of making an error if, by querying an oracle a fixed number of times, we declare constant a randomly chosen n-bit Boolean function. We compare the classical and the quantum case, and we determine for how many oracle-queries k and for how many bits n one querying procedure is more efficient than the other.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003