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Past exam of the mathematical methods I course of the University of Oxford 2019 1 d Solution by
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Use the principal complex logarithm at each stage of the nested complex exponentiation. Since ,This inner value is positive real, so its principal complex logarithm is . ConsequentlyOne must retain the parentheses: complex exponentiation is not associative. If all complex logarithm branches are allowed, the inner values are . Taking the outer logarithm with an independent integer branch index yields . Thus the complete multivalued set is , and the boxed answer selects its principal evaluation.
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