[sdiy] Vocoder dabblings

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On Thursday 29 November 2012, 21:10:20, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> Is there some particular reason to use "sum of squares, then square root"
> over "sum of absolute values"?

Because it is simply not the same thing?

sqrt( 2^2 + 2^2 ) != 2 + 2

> Often people use square-then-square-root as a way to get the absolute
> value, but it doesn't make much sense in most computer hardware, so
> what's the advantage?

That is yet another thing and I don't know of any sane person who does that 
in numeric computation.  However it is often a convenient thing to do in 
derivations.


Regards,
Achim.
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