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## Periodicity of the Fourier transform

If X[n] is, as above, a signal that repeats every samples, the Fourier transform of X[n] also repeats itself every units of frequency, that is,

for all real values of . This follows immediately from the definition of the Fourier transform, since the factor

is unchanged when we add (or any multiple of ) to .