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Article #75441FFT discoverer
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 23:09
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 23:09
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Joe Buck writes: Imagine what a horrible world we'd live in if AT&T held a monopoly on the use of the Fast Fourier Transform.... Had Cooley and Tukey not published, the algorithm would have been independently rediscovered soon later... 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.) If only Gauss had written about user interfaces....
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,a3783b857baac617 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-06 16:09:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: FFT discoverer Message-ID: <1990Aug6.230908.2680@twinsun.com> Date: 6 Aug 90 23:09:08 GMT References: <38006@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@twinsun.com Organization: Twin Sun, Inc Lines: 14 Posted: Tue Aug 7 00:09:08 1990