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Infinity (aleph-null if you want to be picky)

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From: jeh
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:52
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In article <1992Dec23.160159.15130@emr1.emr.ca>, mikolaje@ccrs.emr.ca (Ken Mikolajek) writes:
> In article <1992Dec16.011918.25341@eng.ufl.edu> iqbal@omaha.eel.ufl.edu (M.Iqbal) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec12.003507.1@research.ptt.nl>, walvdrk_r@research.ptt.nl (Kees van der Wal) writes:
>>|> In article <1g4ul8INN2em@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, esrej@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr
>>|> L A J Davis) writes: 
>>|> 
>>|> > I purchased a 486 motherboard fitted with a 486DX2 50MHz cpu. Unfortunately
>>|> > ... stuff deleted
>>
>>Square wave have infinte number of frequencies: a fact explained in 
>>any introductory communication book. If you do not believe me than 
>>try finding Fourier Transform of a pulse train or see a specturm
>>of a pulse train on a spectrum analyzer. 
> 
> Actually I was under the impression that a square wave only had
> odd harminics. That's what we see in communications  and
> signal processing textbooks.

"harmonics".  And yes, a square wave has only the odd ones.  There are still
an infinite number of them (for a perfect square wave).  

Perhaps if you had some curiosity in fields outside your specialty you would 
have come across the fact that there are an infinite number of positive odd 
integers, just as there are an infinite number of positive integers.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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Subject: Infinity (aleph-null if you want to be picky)
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Date: 24 Dec 92 05:52:24 GMT
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