Another Star Trek Question

[imported_M3]

How big is a gigaquad?
4000 Times larger than a terabyte?
Or is it something that they made up? Ive heard people use gigaquad but not in reference to star trek.

 

[SoylentGreen]

1.21 giggawatts.

I really don't know.

 

[dullard]

Gigaquad was never defined on the show. I typed "gigaquad" into Google and found many links of people guessing that gigaquad is 1 billion (giga) times 1 quadrillion (quad). Thus 10^9 x 10^15 = 10^24. Thus it is a yottabyte. This is far bigger than a terabyte (10^12).

 

[0roo0roo]

would be stupid of them to define it..being nice an ambiguous about future tech keeps it from looking absurd too quickly

 

[Ameesh]

no one knows

 

[MercenaryForHire]

We might be nerds here, but we're not that bad.

- M4H

 

[fs5]

even wikipedia doesn't know
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigaquad

 

[n0cmonkey]

Gene Roddenbury was in league with the devil, and not the cute cuddly one. The mean snarly one.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Gene Roddenbury was in league with the devil, and not the cute cuddly one. The mean snarly one.

Nope, that was a lady with a cloaked ship using holograms to fool that planet into turning itself over to her, remember?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Gene Roddenbury was in league with the devil, and not the cute cuddly one. The mean snarly one.

Nope, that was a lady with a cloaked ship using holograms to fool that planet into turning itself over to her, remember?

Ummmm, no. I'd have to watch the show to know WTF you're talking about.

Roddenbury is an insult to Science Fiction fans everywhere.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Ummmm, no. I'd have to watch the show to know WTF you're talking about.
Roddenbury is an insult to Science Fiction fans everywhere.

For hiring Harlan Ellison, who wrote "City on the Edge of Forever" for the original series? Even the cartoons adapted Larry Niven's "The Soft Weapon."

Berman & Braga, on the other hand, are an insult to SF fans.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Ummmm, no. I'd have to watch the show to know WTF you're talking about.
Roddenbury is an insult to Science Fiction fans everywhere.

Like Harlan Ellison, who wrote "City on the Edge of Forever" for the original series?

And the script was heavily modified, which of course pissed off Ellison. But yes.

 

[silverpig]

My guess is they don't use binary for their computers. bit = binary. They use quads. So I'm guessing that each "quad" can be 0,1,2,3.

 

[Kadarin]

I cannot tell you how relieved I am that when you said "Data size", that you were not referring to something else.

 

[datalink7]

To find the answer, you'd have to reverse the polarity on your calculator.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
I cannot tell you how relieved I am that when you said "Data size", that you were not referring to something else.

LOL!

 

[TMPadmin]

It's just techno-babble.

 

[Titan]

In the episode "Measure of a Man" There one where Data is on trial and has to proove he's not property, he answers a question about his computational power, and it's in conventional units. Something about 80 quadrillion bits and some number of flops. I can't remember exactly, bit it was flops, bits and maybe even bytes!

 

[Heisenberg]

IIRC they purposely never defined it in terms of real units because of how fast storage capacity was/is increasing.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: silverpig
My guess is they don't use binary for their computers. bit = binary. They use quads. So I'm guessing that each "quad" can be 0,1,2,3.

I like this answer instead.