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by dmarquis 5261 days ago
The discrete and continuous transforms are closely related. DFTs and their properties were known before Gauss and his 1805 paper is about computing them quickly. I wanted to emphasize the difference between the problem of finding ways to quickly compute DFTs and Fourier's discovery of the continuous transform.
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Now I get it, thanks.