Level 1, Curious

Shot

The eight cells are eight shots, and each cell holds a bit. This drawing has five 1s, which sits near a chance of 0.64 and is still a short pile.

A shot is one run of a circuit that ends in a measurement, and the run returns bits rather than the amplitudes that set the chances. Experiments repeat the shot because one bit is a weak estimate of a chance, and the pile of bits is what gets compared with the squares.

A handful of shots still wobbles around the true chances. The pile settles as it grows, which is the picture worth showing, and a single dramatic click is a poor stand-in for it.

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