Resolution of two sinusoidal signals of frequencies f
1and f
2requires a time record of length at least

. Resolution of two decaying exponentials of complex frequencies s
1= σ
1+jω
1and s
2= σ
2+jω
2, with

, by correlation coefficient is independent of the ratios σ
2/σ
1, and (ω
1- ω
2)/σ
1for a time record of length greater than

. This is also the condition for near-orthogonalization of a set of complex exponentials, with small error.