Mega quad to yotta bytes

[Chariel]

[FONT=Arial] [FONT=Verdana]Many years ago I joined in a convention rap session with a few enthusiasts and a couple members of the trek franchise. We were brainstorming computer power and memory (this was well before Qubits and quantum computers became a common concept). We looked at old two dimensional memory arrays (they actually were used back then for bootstrapping computers) and projected the possibility of a four dimensional array along the axis of four space. The size of the memory would be 1 bit for a single quad or 1 to the 4th power, all the way up to a mega-quad or 1,000,000 to the fourth power bits or 1.25 x 10 to the 23rd bytes; I think that would be .125 yotta-bytes now. At the time these numbers seemed astronomical, but possibly useful for a far future Star Trek world. I have heard the terms thrown about in the various series, sometimes as billions of terra-quads (it is unlikely that a quad is what we envisioned back then) a terra-quad would be far too large even for the Next Generation. Could you let me know how the kilo to terra-quad relates in the shows to actual memory devices now existing? And do they explain how the memory devices work; are they quantum computers or something beyond?[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]THANKS this seems an interesting forum[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Chariel[/FONT]
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[FalTorPan]

1 to the 4th power = 1

 

[SoM]

1 to the 4th power = 1

Actually, he says that. Granted, I'm still not quite sure what or why he's getting at (the extraneous font tags and lack of paragraphing don't help); but in that part he's trying to convey that the series goes:

1^4
10^4
100^4
[...]
1000000^4

 

[FalTorPan]

[tag][anothertag][stillanotherone][arewedoneyet]Thanks for the clarification. I guess I should have read between the tags. [/arewedoneyet][/stillanotherone][/anothertag][/tag]