I am reading signal processing first by Mcclellan In chap 3,last para of article 3.1.2, I came across a term "discontinuous" as shown underlined in attached photo
What is meant by it in the context of discussion in photo? Is it meaning discrete?
I am reading signal processing first by Mcclellan In chap 3,last para of article 3.1.2, I came across a term "discontinuous" as shown underlined in attached photo
What is meant by it in the context of discussion in photo? Is it meaning discrete?
It means not continuous.
For an example, consider the following function on $[0,2],$ which can be extended to be periodic:
$$f(x)=\begin{cases}x &\text{ if } 0\le x\lt 1\\ 0& \text{ if } 1\le x\lt 2\end{cases}.$$
The graph of this function would look kind of like this:
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