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Cooley, Tukey, and the Fast Fourier Transform: Making Spectral Computation Practical

James Cooley and John Tukey's 1965 FFT paper reorganized the discrete Fourier transform so the same result could be computed with dramatically less work, unlocking routine digital spectral analysis.

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