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Re: plot dirac delta function? [message #49790 is a reply to message #49366]

Fri, 11 August 2006 15:35

James Kuyper
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Carsten Lechte wrote:
> I agree with what you said. The Dirac "function" is is
> only defined by what it does under an integration. It is
> really a distribution (generalised function), since no
> normal function exists that behaves like the Dirac delta.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_%28mathematics%29
> for some details on distributions.

Thanks. I knew that mathematicians had tamed the DIrac Delta into
something they could actually make sense of, but I couldn't remember
the name they gave to the concept; it's probably been more than a
decade since I last needed to use that name.

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		plot dirac delta function? By: Nic on Wed, 19 July 2006 03:30
		Re: plot dirac delta function? By: James Kuyper on Sun, 23 July 2006 19:07
		Re: plot dirac delta function? By: swingnut on Sat, 29 July 2006 22:27
		Re: plot dirac delta function? By: swingnut on Sat, 29 July 2006 22:17
		Re: plot dirac delta function? By: James Kuyper on Sun, 30 July 2006 07:32
		Re: plot dirac delta function? By: Carsten Lechte on Fri, 11 August 2006 14:18
		Re: plot dirac delta function? By: James Kuyper on Sun, 30 July 2006 07:18
		Re: plot dirac delta function? By: James Kuyper on Fri, 11 August 2006 15:35
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