@@ -468,15 +468,19 @@ Blackman-Harris window of length `n` with `padding` zeros. The Blackman-Harris
468468window is a linear combination of three or four trigonometric terms, optimized
469469for minimum sidelobe level (at the expense of a wider main lobe). The number of
470470terms can be selected with `term` ∈ [3,4]. For `term = 3`, the maximum sidelobe
471- level is about -69 dB, while for `term = 4` (the default), it improves to -92
472- dB.
471+ level is about -70.83 dB, while for `term = 4` (the default), it improves to
472+ -92.01 dB. Note, that Nuttall proved those coefficients to not be the most
473+ optimized ones in [Nuttall, A. H. (1981). Some windows with very good sidelobe
474+ behavior. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, 29,
475+ 84-91](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1163506).
476+
473477
474478The 3-term window `w3(x)` and the 4-term window `w4(x)` are defined by sampling
475479the following continuous functions in the range `[-0.5, 0.5]`:
476480
477- w3(x) = 0.42323 + 0.49755*cos(2pi *x) + 0.07922*cos(4pi *x)
481+ w3(x) = 0.42323 + 0.49755*cos(2π *x) + 0.07922*cos(4π *x)
478482
479- w4(x) = 0.35875 + 0.48829*cos(2pi *x) + 0.14128*cos(4pi *x) + 0.01168*cos(6pi *x)
483+ w4(x) = 0.35875 + 0.48829*cos(2π *x) + 0.14128*cos(4π *x) + 0.01168*cos(6π *x)
480484
481485For more details see [Harris, F. J. (1978). On the Use of Windows for Harmonic
482486Analysis with the Discrete Fourier Transform. Proceedings of the IEEE, 66(1),
@@ -486,9 +490,9 @@ The `blackmanharris` windows do not generally satisfy the Constant Overlap-Add
486490(COLA) property. Nevertheless, when using `zerophase = true` and implementing the
487491following boundary conditions they approximately do:
488492- For the 3-term window the overlap should be 66% and the window length should
489- be a power of 3.
493+ be a multiple of 3.
490494- For the 4-term window the overlap should be 75% and the window length should
491- be a power of 2.
495+ be a multiple of 2.
492496
493497$(twoD_docs ())
494498
@@ -557,7 +561,7 @@ lobe with sidelobe suppression of about 91 dB.
557561
558562The window is defined by sampling the continuous function:
559563
560- w3(x) = a0 + a1*cos(2pi *x) + a2*cos(4pi *x) + a3*cos(6pi *x) + a4*cos(8pi *x)
564+ w3(x) = a0 + a1*cos(2π *x) + a2*cos(4π *x) + a3*cos(6π *x) + a4*cos(8π *x)
561565
562566in the range `[-0.5, 0.5]` with the following coefficients:
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