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- From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- Subject: Re: (none)
- Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.173814.22644@cs.ruu.nl>
- In-Reply-To: mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:38:14 GMT
- Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- References: <2250597@overmind.citadel> <1992Sep11.171848.29728@u.washington.edu>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- >>>>> mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park) (MP) writes:
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- MP> Although your idea of "retaining the shape of the sine wave" is
- MP> intuitively appealing, the Sampling Theorem (tm) assures us that
- MP> a sine wave can be completely represented even when sampled at
- MP> "only" twice its frequency. To understand why, you must realize
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- MP> that a triangle wave of a given frequency contains components
- MP> of much higher frequencies. If the analog signal has been properly
- MP> sampled, then even though the digital samples may _look_ like a
- MP> triangle wave, the only "legal" underlying analog signal is
- MP> a sine wave.
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- To be precise, the sampling frequency must be a tiny bit more than twice.
- Otherwice you can't tell the amplitude of the sine wave.
- --
- Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
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