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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:02:17 -0700
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:23:03 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:26:40 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
>wrote:
>
>[...]
>>Sine waves are boring.
>
>Well, square waves give rise to lots of harmonics which can be useful.
>But what about triangles and sawtooths. Any interesting properies
>hidden away in those?

Periodic waveforms are all boring. They just do the same thing, over
and over.

A complex pulse can do interesting things. Spin an airplane. Fuse
deuterium-tritium. Trigger a megaton boom.

I wish the world would move on from the slide rule and graph paper
days, narrowband s-parameters and Smith charts and load pulls. We have
computers now.