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Dan Boschen
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Here is a picture to add to Robert's good answer demonstrating the "re-use" of operations, in this case for an 8 point DFT. The "Twiddle Factors" are represented in the diagram using the notation $W_N^{nk}$ which is equal to $e^{j2\pi \frac{nk}{N}}$

Note the path shown and the equation underneath shows the result for the frequency bin X(1), as given by Robert's equation copied below:

$$ X[k] = \sum\limits_{n=0}^{N-1} x[n] \, e^{j 2 \pi \frac{nk}{N}} $$

Dashed lines are no different than solid lines just to make clear where the summation joins are.

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