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I did fft in matlab and in java using jtransforms library but the results are slightly different.
Matlab results:
-0.0530528652679544
-0.00775535711930750 + 0.0281791646147104i
-0.0304104457750988 - 0.209776156064443i
0.266945753193636 + 0.200338044445226i
Jtransforms results:
-0.05305448436232618
-0.007755593801247046 + 0.028180024600812384
-0.03041137385657606 -0.20978255812004887
0.26695389998013486 + 0.20034415846373468
Are the results different or Matlab is just rounding the values?
There are several different algorithms for doing FFT. In principle they’re all equal, but in practice, combined with floating-point arithmetic, the results will be slightly different. Even if the basic FFT algorithm is the same, implementation details such as order of summation can cause differences. Many modern processors do this even if you don’t do anything special, depending on the optimization flags.
In your results, the differences are at about 5th significant digit. It’s a reasonably small difference. You could try inverse transforming the results (using both Matlab and JTransforms IFTs) to see whether one or the other of the transforms is clearly more accurate.