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It's almost certain that the stock will fall in days to come, but its ride up has been so furious, and the company is such a good one, that it would be surprising if the tumble were too precipitous.
First, the abrupt end of the original data set followed by a string of zeros creates a sharp discontinuity and this artifact can cause problems in the resultant spectrum in the form of "side lobes" [ 47 48 ] . One strategy for addressing this problem is to apply so-called smoothing or weighting functions to make the drop to zero less precipitous and reduce the appearance in the spectrum of the resultant artifactual bands called side-lobes [ 47 48 37 ] . But techniques for side-lobe suppression are in themselves problematic.
Surrounded by a pair of precipitous ravines, the imposing walls of the citadel were some forty feet high and twenty feet thick, virtually impregnable.
(As for the precipitous drop-off, Ginsberg said, 'Come on, I'm dead.
The result is often a precipitous sell-off.