BobW wrote:
> "Jerry Avins" <jya@ieee.org> wrote in message
> news:bfq2m.2441$066.810@newsfe08.iad...
>> BobW wrote:
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>> ...
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>>> I found the answer. It was in the last place I looked.
>> Almost inevitably. Having found it, why look further?
>>
>> ...
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>> Jerry
>
> Yes. I was merely trying to add a little bit of humor to this otherwise-dry
> newsgroup.

It alternates. Sometimes the humor gets laid on thick. (When I attempt
it, it often falls flat.)

> I sense that this technique of packing real data samples into the imaginary
> part of the input to the FFT is rather uncommon. Is that your take, too?

No. The technique seems to be widely known, but rarely needed. There are
real-to real FFT libraries available that do the scut work for the user,
as good libraries should.

Jerry
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