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 | | Sampling is the process of converting a signal (for example, a function of continuous time or space) into a numeric sequence (a function of discrete time or space). |
 | | From a signal processing perspective, the theorem describes two processes; a sampling process, in which a continuous time signal is converted to a discrete time signal, and a reconstruction process, in which the continuous signal is recovered from the discrete signal. |
 | | The sampling theorem was implied by the work of Harry Nyquist in 1928 ("Certain topics in telegraph transmission theory"), in which he showed that up to 2B independent pulse samples could be sent through a system of bandwidth B; but he did not explicitly consider the problem of sampling and reconstruction of continuous signals. |
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