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DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) is actually a cut-down version of the FFT:
-  Only the real part of FFT
 -  Computationally simpler than FFT
 -  DCT -- Effective for Multimedia Compression
 -  DCT MUCH more commonly used.
 
Dave Marshall
10/4/2001