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| | About Colored Noise |
 | | Noise is used to mean a lot of things in engineering, and is an extremely important concept, since a lot of the technical challenges in, say, building a cell phone system, or an ultrasound machine, come from trying to extract a desired information 'signal' from a background of unwanted 'noise'. |
 | | In general, 'noise' can refer to anything that interferes with what we want: it might be a single voice of someone sitting next to us in a movie, but the 'purest' form of noise comes from a totally random source. |
 | | In audio, the most common color encountered is 'pink noise': Realized as sound, white noise sounds like the hiss of an untuned FM radio, or the background noise on a cassette tape player. |
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