Solution

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Choose the radicals with positive imaginary part. The roots of unity are
The first comes from . For the second, obeys , so ; solving gives the displayed expression. The Kummer extension towers are
Each step is quadratic and the base contains the second roots of unity. The second tower really has degrees : its intermediate field is real, while the added radical is nonreal, and belongs to the cyclotomic field.

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