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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2009 Paper 1 7 d Solution by
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For , fix one argument . Every value of the complex logarithm is , . By complex exponentiation, . Taking the real part of its exponent gives all possible moduli:Equivalently these are . If is real and nonzero the modulus is the single value ; otherwise the values form a geometric progression with ratio . Changing the initially chosen argument just reindexes the same set. The logarithmic definition excludes . This is the modulus of a complex self-power.
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