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Signal Analysis

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A single song on a CD contains about 44,100 samples per second — signal analysis techniques help reconstruct those samples into the music you hear.

Why this is interesting

Every sound you hear, every picture you see on a screen, and every heartbeat monitored in a hospital starts as a messy jumble of numbers. How do we turn that chaos into clear meaning?