Web Supplement to James Cornette ’ s Technical Note

This supplement is directly tied to a Technical Note that appears in the July/August 2006 issue of Computing in Science & Engineering (the full citation is J. Cornette, “Gauss-Vaníček and Fourier Transform Spectral Analysis of Marine Diversity,” vol. 9, no. 4, 2007, pp. 61–63). In the Technical Note, I compared Gauss-Vaníček spectral analysis of 542 million years of marine diversity with a Fourier transform spectral analysis and found—somewhat