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A.E lover wrote:
> Thanks Wescott,  however I have a specific requirement to normalize
> fft: " normalize the FFT output such that a sinusoid with amplitude 1
> will correspond to an FFT magnitude of unity". I think for this
> specific requirement we will have unique way to do that, right? So in
> your opinion, in this case, how should I do to normalize FFT output?

That depends on the details of the FFT routine you use. Write your own 
and know, or use Tim's approach to find out.

Jerry
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