The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
- Kind
- Blog
- Date
- NOV 06, 2013
- Publisher
- Nautilus Blog
- Retrieved
- Nov 7, 2013
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Fourier Transformations
So what was Fourier’s discovery, and why is it useful? Imagine playing a note on a piano. When you press the piano key, a hammer strikes a string that vibrates to and fro at a certain fixed rate (440 times a second for the A note). As the string vibrates, the air molecules around it bounce to and fro, creating a wave…