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Illustration of the Downsampling/Aliasing Theorem in Matlab

>> N=4;
>> x = 1:N;
>> X = fft(x);
>> x2 = x(1:2:N);
>> fft(x2)                         % FFT(Downsample(x,2))
ans =
    4   -2
>> (X(1:N/2) + X(N/2 + 1:N))/2     % (1/2) Alias(X,2)
ans =
    4   -2


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``Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), with Audio Applications --- Second Edition'', by Julius O. Smith III, W3K Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9745607-4-8
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