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In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

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Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to generate a family of window functions from the existing four-term cosine window function that has an asymptotic decay of 42 dB/octave. The proposed ...