[SciPy-User] frequency components of a signal buried in a noisy time domain signal

josef.pktd at gmail.com josef.pktd at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 16:38:06 EST 2010


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ivo Maljevic <ivo.maljevic at gmail.com> wrote:
> -1
>
> Which brings up the question: is nextpow2(.5) 0 or -1?
>

frexp has a discontinuity at zero, same as matlab
(or is this a computer science definition)

matlab:
>> nextpow2(0.5)
ans =
    -1
>> nextpow2(0.25)
ans =
    -2
>>
>> nextpow2(0.125)
ans =
    -3
>> nextpow2(1e-300)
ans =
  -996
>> nextpow2(0)
ans =
     0

Josef

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