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Subject: Re: Dummies guide to DCT
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James Turner wrote:

> I was wondering if someone could explain to me the Discrete Cosine
> Transform, in as simple as possible English.

In the DCT the signal is decomposed into a sum of cosines, as opposed
to the Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) where the signal is decomposed
into a sum of sines and cosines.