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The name sinus cardinalis dates back by Edmund T. Whittaker in 1915, where he named the bandlimited or most simple function of a family of cotabular functions (sharing a function table, i.e., values at equally spaced sample points) the cardinal function of this family. One would have to check if he already named the basis functions or if that came later. See A History of interpolation.--LutzL (talk) 11:09, 4 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Since Sinc redirects here, it's very probable that some "audio freaks" will first search for sinc used in sound backends, but instead get a boatload of mathematical stuff they actually did not want to delve into so much. Of course, there is a link to the "Sinc filter", but it's on the very bottom, squeezed somewhere between antialiasing and lanczos stuff. However, there's already a "Redirect" template on top. In case you agree, could you give me a hand how to handle this best? (and remove the "Sinc filter" from the "See also" list in the process) -andy 2.242.236.31 (talk) 17:54, 11 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

The 'Infobox' that was introduced by the edit 2021 Nov 25, includes the heading "solution", and gives a year of 1952. That looks really dumb to me, as if that was the first year that the properties of sin(x)/x was first considered. Does anyone else think that putting "Solution" = "1952" is wrong-headed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.20.25.26 (talk) 19:43, 29 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

I agree that "year of solution" should be "year of definition" or any close item provided by the infobox.

I feel that the series for the extrema should be an asymptotic one; if so this should be stated. 151.29.137.229 (talk) 19:11, 10 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Currently if you search on Wikipedia for the tanc function, it redirects to this sinc function's page. However, there is zero discussion on the tanc function anywhere on this page, currently, even though it is obvious that the analogous function would be simply defined as ${\displaystyle \operatorname {tanc} x={\frac {\tan x}{x}}}$ Either sinc page should get some extra sections for tanc and tanhc or the appropriate page for tanc should be created. ~2026-41815-86 (talk) 00:17, 28 July 2026 (UTC)Reply