Why not a standard name used for this common function? DTFT
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- Subject: [mg107627] Why not a standard name used for this common function? DTFT
- From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:37:48 -0500 (EST)
It is nice that M7 added support for Discrete Time Fourier Transform (DTFT). A very important transform. http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/FourierAnalysis.html But I do not understand why it was named "FourierSequenceTransform". This name is completely non-standard. It could have been named "DiscreteTimeFourierTransform[]" to make it easier to identify. ALso this name is not used by Mathematica as far as I can see, so there would not have been a problem using it. I am surprised because one nice thing about Mathematica is that it normally uses standard and full names for mathematical functions, but not in this one case. May be this could be fixed in next versions and deprecate this non-standard name? --Nasser