Fourier decomposition (Fred Herzfeld )

Subject: Fourier decomposition
From:    Fred Herzfeld  <herzfeld(at)ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Date:    Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:20:01 -0400

Hello List:

I am now about to make public some work on signal decomposition. As part 
of the disclosure I will make the statement:
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It is not possible to accurately recover the coefficients (amplitude and 
phase of the individual harmonics) of a function consisting of harmonic 
sinusoidal components, when the Period of the not necessarily present 
fundamental is not known, by using the normal computational procedure of 
either the Fourier Series or the Short term Fourier Transform.
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I would appreciate any and all comments.

Fred
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Fred Herzfeld, MIT '54
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