Revision 40293533 of "Kiloquad" on enwikiA '''kiloquad''' is a unit of memory originally conceived from the [[Star Trek]] series. Within the Star Trek universe, one kiloquad is equal to 1000 "quads," and one "quad" is equal to 4000 [[Iso-bit]]s.
Aside from this, the actual amount of memory in 1 kiloquad had not been defined meaningfully (as in terms of bytes) by the creators of the series. The reason the term was invented in the first place was to mask the data capacity of the futuristic computers of Star Trek, in anticipation that an actual description might appear foolish in the not-too-distant future as a result of advancing computer technology in the real world.
Later on, however, many [[Newsgroup|r.a.st.tech]] contributors have converged on 1 kiloquad being equal to 1000 ('''kilo''') * 1 '''quad'''rillion bytes, which becomes approximately equal to 1 [[exabyte]] or 1 billion [[gigabyte]]s. However, this would imply that each one of the Enterprise's [[Isolinear_chip|Isolinear Chips]] would contain 25 times as much data as [[Data_(star_trek)|Data]] himself.
Quads could also refer to four-state data, rather than the [[Binary numeral system|two-state data]] seen in today's computers. Four-state data could then, in turn, be a reference to [[quantum computing]], which has been referenced before, such as when the [[Deep Space Nine]] character Rom says that mental patterns must be stored at the quantum level, due to their extreme complexity.
==External link==
* [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Quad Quad] at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek WikiWiki
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