When i was in 1st semester of Engineering, I heard about "filters"a lot like how difficult it is and bla bla n bla. By then, we had studied filter too. And it was quite easy. Lpf(low pass filter), Hpf(high pass filter), Bpf(band pass filter) and I used to wonder how complex could this be, why is it such a topic of discussion among the 4th year students. Yesterday, me n my friend, we studied from 9am to 4pm almost continuously and all we could cover was 5 hellish pages and I swear there was more than 50% of the things we found out we have to learn by heart and there is no any other way out. All this because there is a subject " filter " which is not in our syllabus but again there is a subject named "DSAP" which is father of great grand father of toughest subjects which is in our syllabus and we have to have a good knowledge of Fourier transform, convolution, etc etc and not to forget " filter " to understand its course of contents. But how...
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