For a complex-valued deterministic signal of finite energy band-limited to the normalized frequency band

explicit coefficients

are found such that for any

satisfying

,

where

is the signal energy and

. Thus the estimate of

in terms of

past samples taken at a rate equal to or in excess of twice the Nyquist rate converges uniformly at a geometric rate to

on

. The suboptimal coefficients

have the desirable property of being pure numbers independent of both the particular band-limited signal and of the selected sampling rate

. It is also shown that these same coefficients can be used to estimate the value of

of a wide-sense stationary random process in terms of past samples.