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Nearly Every JPEG on Earth Runs on Math a Reviewer Called Too Simple to Fund in 1972 by Alex Cooke fstoppers.com/historical/n...

fstoppers.comThe Math Behind Every JPEG: Ahmed's Rejected 1972 Proposal | FstoppersHow a rejected 1972 NSF proposal led to the discrete cosine transform, the mathematical foundation powering nearly every JPEG ever created. Ahmed's summer of 1973 changed digital imaging forever.

7/10/26, 8:14 am15 reposts50 likes

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Interesting that when we published Domesday, the work on JPEG was just starting. For just a few more years analogue was still king.