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From: bobc@hplsla.HP.COM (Bob Cutler)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: Help on FFT frequency resolution
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Date: 11 Jan 91 15:47:53 GMT
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/ hplsla:comp.dsp / bobc@hplsla.HP.COM (Bob Cutler) /  1:25 pm  Jan 10, 1991 /


>This seems to increase the DFFT frequency resolution.  But I remember I read
>from a text book somewhere that says it isn't so (I forget which book that is);
>the padding is just a way of interpolation.  Is it true?
>

window 512 points wide.  This multiplication in the frequency domain 
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^

This should be 'multiplication in the time domain'.   Sorry for the 
confusion.