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The <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SincFunction.html" target="_top">Sinus Cardinal
family of functions</a> (indexed by the family of indices <code class="literal">a
&gt; 0</code>) is defined by
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it sees heavy use in signal processing tasks.
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By analogy, the <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SinhcFunction.htm" target="_top">Hyperbolic
Sinus Cardinal</a> family of functions (also indexed by the family of
indices <code class="literal">a &gt; 0</code>) is defined by
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These two families of functions are composed of entire functions.
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