You would need 3 or 4 cycles to be able to reasonably identify a cycle. Filters wich use previous outputs that are fed back need time to settle. Filters which use only present inputs pick up harmonics, as much as 25% of the nearest cycle. By using many cycles worth of data, the parasitic effects of harmonics is lessened. There are sooo many tradeoffs going on.
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