They’ve moved over to quads. Whatever the hell they are. Around the TNG era they were talking in kiloquads I think by voy their into the gigaquad range.
My head canon is that a quad is a term employed due to the way isolinear chips store data in a 3d matrix.
Exactly. Just as binary digit got abbreviated to “bit” and a collection of (eight) bits became known as a “byte”, I figure something similar would happen for quantum digits -> qubits -> quads (because “qubytes” sounds awkward and “quants” sounds like something you couldn’t get say on network television).
They’ve moved over to quads. Whatever the hell they are. Around the TNG era they were talking in kiloquads I think by voy their into the gigaquad range.
My head canon is that a quad is a term employed due to the way isolinear chips store data in a 3d matrix.
In my head canon quad is a fundamental unit used in quantum computing, which I assume is a technology in common use in Trek.
That’s not far from reality. Quantum computers work with qubits.
Exactly. Just as binary digit got abbreviated to “bit” and a collection of (eight) bits became known as a “byte”, I figure something similar would happen for quantum digits -> qubits -> quads (because “qubytes” sounds awkward and “quants” sounds like something you couldn’t get say on network television).