Reasons to Prefer Even-Order Lagrange Interpolation over Odd-Order

• Two-sample passive delay-range instead of only one-sample.
• Not constrained to have a zero amplitude response at the Nyquist limit when the the desired delay is half-way between samples.

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.