Craig Gidney

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@babbush Do you have a short mathematical description of what the non-power-of-2 operation is *supposed* to do? I could look at it.

I still don't really get creation/annihilation operators and exactly how they map back into unitary operations on qubits. But my guess based on this: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/79941/38450166-3d4d600a-39ce-11e8-81d2-7f9ced4c7bb7.png) that we want to map...

If we are going to add more and more examples, I think we need to come up with some sort of strategy for running the tests that doesn't add multiple...

That's true, the coming simulator improvements will help a lot.

Could you be more specific about what you are doing and what isn't happening?

Oh, you mean like run a make command to install libstim as a library that can be linked to or to install stim as a command line tool in the...

What do you expect to be installed if you run `make install`?

While we're on the topic, the whole "write shot to disk" part of code could use refactoring. There need to be more convenient methods that work on entire shots, both...

This seems really difficult to fix. The purpose of building the three modules is to allow runtime machine architecture detection, and is necessary in order to distribute binary wheels that...

This was because of a floating point precision issue. Probably the string output is not including enough digits somehow.