6 Apr
2016
6 Apr
'16
9:04 p.m.
Aren't epicycles the earliest version of Fourier series? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle Now if someone could show that Ptolemy invented the FFT... At 05:04 PM 4/6/2016, Marc LeBrun wrote:
Or there's Gosper's observation that enough epicycles actually could have accounted for any observed orbit...