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October 15th, 2009, 07:50 PM
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| | Generating a fourier series for a collection of data points Hi everyone
I'm not quite sure how to do this. I have the graph of a function and I want to generate an equation for it. Is there some online free site that I could just upload, say, a .csv file with the data points and have it generate a function for me? I suspect it has to be a fourier series.
thanks!
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October 16th, 2009, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by yafmen Hi everyone
I'm not quite sure how to do this. I have the graph of a function and I want to generate an equation for it. Is there some online free site that I could just upload, say, a .csv file with the data points and have it generate a function for me? I suspect it has to be a fourier series.
thanks!
john | I have not seen a free site that will fit your need. There are some inexpensive program packages available (probably at your local computer store). Just wondering: How was the graph generated? How did you get the data points? If you scaled the data points from the image, you will have a small error introduced into each data point; the resulting equation will not give an exact replica of your original. If may be very close -- is that good enough? If you have the data points, it should not be that difficult to fit a fourier series to it. How many points in your .csv or .txt file? | 
October 17th, 2009, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by yafmen Hi everyone
I'm not quite sure how to do this. I have the graph of a function and I want to generate an equation for it. Is there some online free site that I could just upload, say, a .csv file with the data points and have it generate a function for me? I suspect it has to be a fourier series.
thanks!
john | Is this homework or a real problem? If this is a real problem post the graph, and your data here and I am sure someone will look at it for you (and some context would help as well, like where the graph came from, and what it represents, ...).
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