 Equality condition in the complex triangle inequality (source code)

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= Equality condition in the complex triangle inequality

For nonzero <complex numbers> $x,y$, equality $|x+y|=|x|+|y|$ holds exactly when $x/y$ is a positive real number, equivalently when the two numbers have the same <complex argument> modulo $2\pi$.

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