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From: gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy)
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Subject: Re: Hartley xform
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Date: 11 Oct 89 19:13:24 GMT
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In article <11261@smoke.BRL.MIL> floyd@brl.arpa (Floyd C. Wofford) writes:
#I don't know if it is common knowledge that the Fourier Transform
#of real data is Hermitian but Bracewell shows a pretty picture of that
#fact in his 1965 book "The Fourier Transform...".  He has other pretty
#pictures of symmetry properties on page 15.
#
#I wonder if he knew that?

Considering the number of times he refers to it in the text, I would
say he was. The property of a FT of real data being Hermitian IS
pretty common knowledge.


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