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The parallel approach

A class of two-terminal passive circuit elements that can also act as memories could be the building blocks of a form of massively parallel computation known as memcomputing.

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Di Ventra, M., Pershin, Y. The parallel approach. Nature Phys 9, 200–202 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2566

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