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coppice:

--- Quote from: TimFox on November 01, 2022, 09:29:23 pm ---There are many anachronisms in Shakespeare, including Julius Caesar.
https://anachronisticnook.weebly.com/anachronisms-in-julius-caesar.html
But that is not the only reason why we honor him.
Also:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_chime   and   https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-chronicle-of-timekeeping-2006-02/
Trust me, I have read much history:  classical, medieval, modern, etc.
I was careful during my formal education to avoid history classes, so when I started to read history after graduation I did not find it boring.\

The actual text in question:  Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1:

TREBONIUS
There is no fear in him. Let him not die,
For he will live and laugh at this hereafter.

[Clock strikes.]

BRUTUS
Peace, count the clock.

CASSIUS
The clock hath stricken three.

TREBONIUS
’Tis time to part.

--- End quote ---
You are sounding like young engineers who say things like "a radar couldn't have included a Fourier transform before DSP was practical", because they've only learned digital ways to achieve that functionality.
TimFox:
No.  I have read the text, seen the play several times, and am familiar with ancient/classical timekeeping machinery.
The text reads "hath stricken three":  that means that "the clock has struck three", not merely that it is 3 AM.
An example to cite, not my uneducated opinion:  https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context=csbsresearchconf
I also know that Fourier transforms are spelled with only one F.
When I was in grad school, the Cooley-Tukey algorithm for the faster computation of the discrete Fourier transform was still new, but my colleagues were implementing it on Data General Nova minicomputers.
Other colleagues were doing two-dimensional Fourier transforms with a laser and optical bench.
https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1965-19-090/S0025-5718-1965-0178586-1/S0025-5718-1965-0178586-1.pdf
coppice:

--- Quote from: TimFox on November 01, 2022, 11:34:30 pm ---When I was in grad school, the Cooley-Tukey algorithm for the faster computation of the discrete Fourier transform was still new.

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Well, it was new to Cooley and Tukey. :)
TimFox:
By the early 1970s, it was no longer new for Cooley and Tukey.
coppice:

--- Quote from: TimFox on November 02, 2022, 03:26:28 am ---By the early 1970s, it was no longer new for Cooley and Tukey.

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Have you been in meetings where you say something key, and it gets no response. Then an hour later someone says the same thing thing and everyone reacts appropriately. By that time the rest of the room has caught up enough to respond as they ought to have done the first time, but they 100% utterly forget the same thing had been raised earlier. Cooley-Tukey is a classic example of that happening on a longer term. What amazes me about many examples of this effect is what were the original inventors thinking about when they figured the thing out the first time? They were often so far from having any practical use of their idea that its amazing they ever pondered the issue.
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