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- From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
- Subject: Re: What is the 'sinc' function?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.044601.5471@cs.brown.edu>
- Keywords: sinc
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:46:01 GMT
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- hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen) writes:
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- # I came accross it in a paper about the scattering of electromagnetic
- # radiation.
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- As far as I know it is the common name for the Fourier transform
- of the "rect" function (rect is constant on some interval and
- zero outside). "sinc" turns out to be sin(x)/x (defined to be
- 1 at x=0).
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- -Danny Keren.
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