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# hamming

Hamming window

## Syntax

w = hamming(L)
w = hamming(L,'sflag')

## Description

w = hamming(L) returns an L-point symmetric Hamming window in the column vector w. L should be a positive integer. The coefficients of a Hamming window are computed from the following equation.

$w\left(n\right)=\begin{array}{cc}0.54-0.46\mathrm{cos}\left(2\pi \frac{n}{N}\right),& 0\le n\le N\end{array}$

The window length is $L=N+1$.

w = hamming(L,'sflag') returns an L-point Hamming window using the window sampling specified by 'sflag', which can be either 'periodic' or 'symmetric' (the default). The 'periodic' flag is useful for DFT/FFT purposes, such as in spectral analysis. The DFT/FFT contains an implicit periodic extension and the periodic flag enables a signal windowed with a periodic window to have perfect periodic extension. When 'periodic' is specified, hamming computes a length L+1 window and returns the first L points. When using windows for filter design, the 'symmetric' flag should be used.

 Note   If you specify a one-point window (L=1), the value 1 is returned.

## Examples

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### Hamming Window

Create a 64-point Hamming window. Display the result using wvtool.

```L = 64;
wvtool(hamming(L))
```

## References

[1] Oppenheim, Alan V., Ronald W. Schafer, and John R. Buck. Discrete-Time Signal Processing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999, p. 468.