Mathematics & Algorithms · Recorded milestone
Fast Fourier transform
Recorded year1965
Cooley and Tukey's FFT makes digital signal processing practical.
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Led to
- JPEG compressionRecorded · 1992enables
- MP3 audioRecorded · 1993enables
- Auto-TuneRecorded · 1997enables
- H.264 video codecRecorded · 2003enables
- 4G LTERecorded · 2009enables
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