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- From: healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: (none)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.165901.12125@nosc.mil>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 16:59:01 GMT
- References: <2250597@overmind.citadel>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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- In article <2250597@overmind.citadel> only_bbs!arthur_dent@overmind.mind.org writes:
- >Actually, it
- >depends on your definition of accuracy. If you use a sampling frequency
- >twice that of the sine wave's frequency, it would end up as a triangle wave.
- > At three times the frequency, you would get a square wave. Therefore, to
- >retain the shape of the sine wave, you would need a frequency of at least 5
- >times that of the sound itself.
-
- Wow! 5x! Wait until Nyquist finds out :-)
-