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The second-most important discrete-time signal is the unit sample, which is defined to be
(5.14)
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Examination of a discrete-time signal's plot, like that of the cosine signal shown in Figure 5.7(Cosine), reveals that all signals consist of a sequence of delayed and scaled unit samples. Because the value of a sequence at each integer m is denoted by s(m) and the unit sample delayed to occur at m is written δ(n - m), we can decompose any signal as a sum of unit samples delayed to the appropriate location and scaled by the signal value.
This kind of decomposition is unique to discrete-time signals, and will prove useful subsequently.
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