I don't think it's so much that they're just combing through timelines, as much as their forcing multiple timelines into being the "timeline of best fit" where they exist continuously. Thus, their not just running models to see what's in it, their influencing their qubits in a way that allows them to force it to the pattern.
After all the pattern is all they have, as praedyth said you could be made to fit the pattern, if not you're cut from time.
Their use of multiple, supwrpositioned timelines is irrelevant to the number 10, by the way...that would only be 5 calculations with a basic state pairs. They could be doing much more massive calculations, considering the entire planet of mercury, and possibly others ones as well, is a massive computer.
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The 10 timeline thing was simply an example.
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Ok, but they could do almost an infinite number of those... Th have enough computing "skill" to process more than a two bit supercompressed qubit. My point was simply they can do much more massive calculations than 10 simulations of the universe. Which is impressive bc idk which to be more startled at... The fact that the vex use quantum computing, or the fact that the hive can break the beckinstine limit...