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Sound is an integral part of our lives. It is one of our most important ways of sensing the world around us. Moreover, it is fundamental to our communication with our surroundings and fellow human beings.
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The Fourier transform can be shown to exist for a broad class of signals, including absolutely summable/integrable signals, which includes most real-world signals.
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Christensen, M.G. (2019). What Is Sound?. In: Introduction to Audio Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11781-8_1
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