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this is a misconception about how waves are reconstructed. each sample is a single point in time. But the sampling theorem says that if you have a bunch of discrete samples, equally spaced in time, there is one and only one continuous solution that would hit those samples exactly, provided the original signal did not contain any frequencies above nyquist (half the sampling rate). Sampling any higher than that gives you no further useful information. There is stil only one solution.
tldr: the reconstructed signal is a continuous analog signal, not a stair step looking thing