Re: FFT discoverer

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From: william E Davidsen
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 18:49

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In article <1990Aug6.230908.2680@twinsun.com>, eggert@twinsun.com (Paul
Eggert) writes:

|> Cooley and Tukey were merely rediscoverers themselves.
|> Gauss used the FFT algorithm to calculate orbits in 1805.
|> See M T Heideman, D H Johnson, C S Burrus,
|> Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 34 (1985), 265.
|> (Gauss's original is in Latin.)

  That doesn't count, he didn't file a patent ;-)
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