Hann function: Difference between revisions

Hann function is the original name, in honour of von Hann; however, the erroneous "Hanning" function is also heard of on occasion, derived from the paper in which it was named, where the term "hanning a signal" was used to mean applying the Hann window to it.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Blackman|first=R. B.|last2=Tukey|first2=J. W.|date=1958|title=The measurement of power spectra from the point of view of communications engineering — Part I|url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6768513/|journal=The Bell System Technical Journal|volume=37|issue=1|pages=273|doi=10.1002/j.1538-7305.1958.tb03874.x|issn=0005-8580|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/TheMeasurementOfPowerSpectra/page/n58|title=The measurement of power spectra from the point of view of communications engineering|last=Blackman|first=R. B. (Ralph Beebe)|last2=Tukey|first2=John W. (John Wilder)|date=1959|publisher=New York : Dover Publications|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=98|lccn=59-10185}}</ref> The confusion arose from the similar [[Hamming function]], named after [[Richard Hamming]].