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Re: bug in IDL's hanning() window-generating function



Scott Bennett writes after a long analysis of the Hanning function:

>      In any case, I think the point Harris made is that a discrete
> sampling of a window function should not taper to the same value at
> the end that it has at the beginning because to do so would include
> the first sample of the *next* period (windowed segment.)  So IDL's
> hanning() gets it wrong for both even- and odd-length windows. :-(  

Uh, huh. And how did RSI respond when you contacted them 
about it?

Cheers,

David
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