Thursday 7 January 2010

Null

The German term null stands for both zero and looser (in the figurative sense). So please read the following with both meanings in mind (puns are just not translatable).

Hugo, a colleague of mine, has the pastime of reading math textbooks. Recently he was studying one on Fourier transform, in which there was a chapter on zero-padding - the method of of extending a signal (or spectrum) with zeros.



The author's first recommendation is: A lot of zeros are good!. He also noted: This rule is also obeyed in business and politics.

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