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Jul 15, 2016 at 16:45 comment added Adam Francey Interesting, with the time-shift property it can be shown that the magnitude of the DFT is the same if I time-shift the zero-padded middle to the end of the sequence.
Jul 11, 2016 at 0:57 comment added Dan Boschen I see now, thank you. My err was to test quickly with freqz instead of fft directly; freqz pads out the fft to a longer number of samples (so computed the fft of two very different cases as opposed to a simple rotational shift).
Jul 11, 2016 at 0:25 comment added hotpaw2 Look up the time-shift or time shifting property of the FFT.
Jul 10, 2016 at 19:54 comment added Dan Boschen I don't think this is true: That it would still be a sinc function; just compare the two in Matlab/Octave: freqz([1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0]) to freqz([1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1]) and you can see that the magnitude as well as phase is immediately distorted by the rotation.
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