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8.7 due December 7

The trickiest part of this section for me was following all the notation. It made sense, but I had to think about it sometimes to understand what was going on.

I like learning another way to estimate functions using by projecting them onto an orthonormal basis. It makes the Fourier transform seem less magical and more functional. And it makes me wonder, what other useful bases could we use?

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