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<font face="Courier New">Samuel:<br>
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</font><font face="Courier New">As a general concept, y</font><font
face="Courier New">ou are right ... but with nuances. The problem
is deciding when something is really wrong and when it is just a
question of opinion or personal preference. It is wrong to say the
Earth is flat, no matter how many people say it. But is it right
or wrong to call something just a conventional name? <br>
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For instance: Is it right to call </font><font face="Courier New">the
derivative of a function </font><font face="Courier New">"derivative"?
Probably not, because "derivative" is a general concept which
seems to have no relationship with its meaning in math. Probably
in its origins it was more related to grammar than to math. But
once established for centuries, it wouldn't be convenient to
change it on the basis that it is "wrong".<br>
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By the same token, calling "periodic" a window function obtained
from periodic functions (cosines) whose period is equal to its
length doesn't seem intrinsically wrong to me. Calling it "closed"
would be worse since one immediately thinks either of a closed
set, which is not, or a closed curve, which isn't either.<br>
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But even if we found a better word, changing it would very likely
create an unnecessary cognitive dissonance to thousands or
millions of practitioners.<br>
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Anyway, if a much better and cristal-clear word (i.e., whose
meaning would be immediately obvious in its context) were found
and gained consensus, no problem to use it instead of "periodic".
The important thing in my proposal was to include in the window()
function the feature, not how we call it.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Federico Miyara <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/04/2021 04:22, Dang Ngoc Chan,
Christophe wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hello,
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">De : Federico Miyara
Envoyé : dimanche 11 avril 2021 02:08
Like it or not, I guess these keywords come from Matlab, and as Matlab
still seems to dominate the market, many people, including those
willing to quit Matlab (as I did several years ago), are quite used to
those keywords
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I don't agree with this argument.
If a way of doing is wrong, then just keep on going because "everybody does so" is just an argumentum ad populum
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum</a>
which is a fallacious argument.
Regards.
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Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
Mechanical calculation engineer
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