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The authors show how formal degrees of unipotent representations of a simple \(p\)-adic group can be computed by a residue calculation. The paper ends with the example \(E_8.\) The first section concerns the affine Hecke algebra. For a non-0 complex number \(q\), the extended Hecke algebra \(H(W,q)\) is an associative algebra over \(\mathbb{C}\) with vector space basis indexed by elements of the extended affine Weyl group associated to a reduced irreducible root system. The second section takes \(q>0\) and looks at the spherical Plancherel formula and obtains as a consequence the explicit formula of \textit{I. G. MacDonald} [Spherical functions on a group of \(p\)-adic type, Publ. Ramanujan Inst. 2 (1971; Zbl 0302.43018), Theorem 4.1.2]. When \(q>1\), the Plancherel measure has also been determined by MacDonald [loc. cit., Theorem 5.1.2]. In order to minimize technicalities, the authors restrict themselves to Hecke algebras with a single parameter \(q\) (unilabel). The third section concerns the classification by \textit{D. Kazhdan} and \textit{G. Lusztig} [Invent. Math. 87, 153-215 (1987; Zbl 0613.22004)] of the irreducible representations of the unilabel extended affine Hecke algebras. Section 4 explains the role of affine Hecke algebras for the representation theory of reductive groups over a \(p\)-adic field. The results are due to \textit{G. Lusztig} [Intersection cohomology methods in representation theory. Proc. Int. Congr. Math., Kyoto 1990, vol. I, 155-174 (1991; Zbl 0749.14010)] and \textit{L. Morris} [Invent. Math. 114, 1-54 (1993; Zbl 0854.22022)]. Section 5 involves \(L\)-packets of square integrable unipotent representations -- assuming a conjecture for multilabel extended affine Hecke algebras. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0899.00015].