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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 ia Paper 1 1C c Solution by
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Put . Comparing imaginary parts gives , so . Comparing real parts then gives . The left side is positive, so squaring is legitimate only with , but even then it would give . This contradiction proves there is no solution. Equivalently, with nonzero imaginary part the complex modulus is strictly greater than the real part.
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