Re: Bug in FourierTransform?
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- Subject: [mg122667] Re: Bug in FourierTransform?
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 04:46:54 -0500 (EST)
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On 11/4/11 at 6:01 AM, rui.rojo at gmail.com (Rui) wrote:
>Is there anything about Slot that I don't know that explains this
>behaviour?
>FourierTransform[Sin[t], t, #] Out= 0
>Only by changing # to p I get the correct result
The character # has special significance in Mathematica and
cannot be used as a variable by itself. It is a place holder to
be used something like:
In[1]:= FourierTransform[#@t, t, w] & /@ {Sin, Cos}
Out[1]= {I*Sqrt[Pi/2]*DiracDelta[w - 1] -
I*Sqrt[Pi/2]*DiracDelta[w + 1],
Sqrt[Pi/2]*DiracDelta[w - 1] + Sqrt[Pi/2]*DiracDelta[w + 1]}
>It happens with Cos too, but not for imaginary exopnentials or other
>simpel functions like UnitBox Bug?
What is it you are trying to accomplish by using # in the manner
you tried with FourierTransform?