for your info: ch. 11 mbe: fast fourier transforms



Raymond Toy wrote:

> I think this then makes it harder for someone to know that Maxima's fft
> matches that of other definitions.  Why not just put some test pointing
> out the negative frequencies are in the second half (in reverse order)?

I would be happy to simply put this in as an additional bit of info in 
the documentation, with some wording that just describes this symmetry 
and points out where the negative frequencies are etc. I think a purely 
example or formula based description can be difficult to figure out. I 
suggested some wording in an email about the FFT to this list a couple 
of weeks ago

The point is that I want the reader to easily understand what is going 
on, rather than potentially spending say a week trying to figure it out 
(the way i did ;-))