fft of sin(pi*x/5)./(pi*x) returns NaN

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Hi,
I don't know why, if I do the G=sin(pi*x/5)./(pi*x), it returns NaN, can you help me?
Thanks
x=-100:0.1:100
G=sin(pi*x/5)./(pi*x)
H= abs(fft(G))
Tinc=0.01
Fs=1/Tinc;
freq =transpose( -Fs/2:Fs/length(G):Fs/2-(Fs/length(G)));
figure()
plot(x,G)
figure()
plot(freq,H)

Accepted Answer

Star Strider
Star Strider on 11 Jul 2019
When ‘x’ is 0, ‘G’ becomes 0/0, and the IEEE standard defines that as NaN. Any NaN in a vector will propagate through all calculations involving it to result in the entire vector being NaN.
You can get around that by creating a version of L’Hospital’s rule by addint eps to ‘x’:
G=sin(pi*(x+eps)/5)./(pi*(x+eps))
Thar results in the entire vector — and its fft — being defined and not NaN.

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