FFT Features

The FFT has the following features (some would say bugs) :

  • Double sided spectrum.
  • Assumes periodicity in the time domain.

Even though you may take a small chunk of samples on which to perfrom an FFT, the underlying mathematics of the FFT means than you are in fact performing an FFT on the periodic extention of that signal. Here is an extreme example :

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