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Myself, I would say this is 80% correct. The bigger deal is the spectral convergence of the trapezoidal sum for periodic entire functions.


I gave my generalisation in terms of frequency, and not in terms of "number of rectangles" in the Riemann sum, which I conveniently assumed to be infinite.

A better generalisation: if a function is thin-tailed, and its Fourier transform is thin-tailed, then it's Riemann sums converge to its integral at an exponential rate. In particular, this applies to the Gaussian function.

I'll check out what you said.




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