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Fourier series  

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  • A Fourier series is a summation of harmonically related sinusoidal functions, also known as components or harmonics. The result of the summation is a periodic function whose functional form is determined by the choices of cycle length (or period), the number of components, and their amplitudes and phase parameters. With appropriate choices, one cycle (or period) of the summation can be made to approximate an arbitrary function in that interval (or the entire function if it too is periodic). (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series)

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