Talk:Quad (Star Trek)

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In Star Trek Voyager "Cathexis" (in the last minutes) the Doc tells that the human brain comprises 50 gigaquad of information.

So ... here are two articles which discuss brain capacity in terms of information stored and computational capacity.

Energy Limits to the Computational Power of the Human Brain
How Many Bytes in Human Memory?
Tall Girl 21:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Someone in the field of supercomputing once led me to believe that a quad was 1,024 terabytes. Or was it 1,024 gigabytes, hence a quadrillion or so bytes? Shoot, now I don't remember... Vid the Kid - Does this font make me look fat? 16:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)