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This theorem maintains, that when the signal is continious-time (analogue) and has finite spectrum,
limited by the frequency f_upper, it may be represented by its discete samples, taken with the sampling
interval, which satisfies the following condition:

T<=1/2f_upper

Signal's reconstruction is done afterwards without any loss of useful information.

However, all real signals are finite in time domain, therefore they should have unlimited Fourier
spectrum (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle). In order to apply Shannon's theorem, you need to limit
the spectrum by the frequency f_upper.

The more this frequency is, the more is the sampling frequency:

f_sampling = 1/T >=2*f_upper

According to this formula, the wider is the spectrum (the effective band width of the signal) the more
you have to take the sampling frequency in order to avoid information losses.

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