In Popular Culture
On the television show Stargate Universe, the lead scientist, Dr. Nicholas Rush, hoped to use Shor's algorithm to crack Destiny's master code. He taught a quantum cryptography class at the University of California, Berkeley, in which Shor's algorithm was studied.
Shor's algorithm was also a correct answer to a question in a Physics Bowl competition on the television show The Big Bang Theory.
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