Appendix D
Installing the Tools
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
— Thomas Carlyle
In this appendix, we will give you all the instructions needed to run the code examples provided in the main text. We will start by guiding you through the process of installing the software that we will use, then we will learn how to access the real quantum computers on which we will run our code, and finally, we will also show you how to accelerate some of the executions by using a GPU.
D.1 Getting Python
All the quantum programming libraries that we use in this book are based on Python, so you need to have a working Python distribution. If your operating system is Linux or macOS, you probably have one already. If your Python version is at least 3.7, then you are ready to go.
However, even if you already have Python installed on your system, we recommend that you consider following one of these two options:
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