# Discrete Fourier Transform Frequency

Hi everybody,

I'm in the process of writing a discrete Fourier transform program using the algorithm on the DFT wikipedia page. When I throw in functions that I know the frequency domain signal of it gives the predicted shape but I have absolutely know idea how to generate a frequency axis.

Does anybody here know how I can compute the frequency values?

Chris

Redbelly98
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Try using a sine function at a specific frequency. Then whatever you get for the Fourier Transform corresponds to that frequency.

jbunniii
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Hi everybody,

I'm in the process of writing a discrete Fourier transform program using the algorithm on the DFT wikipedia page. When I throw in functions that I know the frequency domain signal of it gives the predicted shape but I have absolutely know idea how to generate a frequency axis.

Does anybody here know how I can compute the frequency values?

$$\frac{n}{N} F_s$$
where $n = 0,1,\ldots,N-1$ are the indices of the samples, and $F_s$ is the sampling frequency of the input sequence.