From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   The other day, my sister and I were watching ST:Voyager's Threshold ep,   
   and it was mentioned that they had collected 5 Billion Gigaquads of   
   information while Tom Paris was doing the Warp Ten test flight.   
      
   And I wondered, out loud, "What's a Gigaquad??".   
      
   Checking out Memory-Alpha.org,   
   http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gigaquad#Gigaquad, they give examples of   
   when the term gigaquad is used, and explain that a Quad is "A quad is a   
   measurement of information in Federation computers. While Federation   
   computers still use binary code in some capacity, they also are known to   
   use trinary code." *Note* trinary code, but no mention of Quad!!   
      
   So I'm now guessing that a gigaquad is a billion quads, but has anybody   
   got a better definition of what a quad is?? i.e. how does it relate to   
   today's RAM, etc?? Maybe RAM goes 3D, so a gigaquad is 1024 x 1024 x   
   1024 bits??   
      
   Anyone got any idea's??   
      
   Daniel   
      
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