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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 1 11 a ii Solution by
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The inner power takes the values . For each such real exponent, all values of the outer complex exponentiation are obtained from all complex logarithm values of its base :Writing , the answer isAll values lie on the unit circle. The principal choice is , giving . In particular the two nestings in parts (i) and (ii) are different: complex exponentiation is not associative.
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