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by duckfang 1846 days ago
> In my opinion, the truly beautiful concept involved here is Euler's formula:

> e^(ix) = cos x + i sin x.

And that right there, is the mathematical basis for a quadrature mixer... And all of software defined radios.

https://hackaday.com/2017/05/16/if-the-i-and-q-of-software-d...