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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2010 Paper 1 14 a ii Solution by
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The logarithm's argument is , with complex modulus one. The principal complex logarithm is therefore , givingIf denotes all logarithm values rather than the principal branch, they are for : the real part remains zero and the imaginary part changes by integer multiples of . The principal value is the conventional single-valued answer.
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