Etymology

Hadamard transform

Today it means: A generalized Fourier transform that performs an orthogonal, symmetric, involutive, linear operation on 2ᵐ real numbers (or complex numbers, although the Hadamard matrices themselves are purely real). Full definition →

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Named for the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard.

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