Discrete Form
An alternative form of the unit step, as a function of a discrete variable n:
where n is an integer. Unlike the usual (not discrete) case, the definition of H is significant.
The discrete-time unit impulse is the first difference of the discrete-time step
This function is the cumulative summation of the Kronecker delta:
where
is the discrete unit impulse function.
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