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 | | Toffoli also distinguished garbage lines, that is, lines whose value depends on the input data and thus cannot be used as source lines for a new computation; temporary storage consists instead of output lines with constant values, thus useful for further computations. |
 | | Toffoli discussed methods for reducing the use of source and garbage lines, culminating in the following theorem: Using as a primitive the Toffoli gate, any function [phi] can be realized reversibly, possibly with temporary storage, but with no garbage. |
 | | The latter is the Toffoli gate; the former is again the Toffoli gate, but with just one control bit (it is a 2-bit gate). |
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