Choose the continuous argument with values in and defineIts branch cut is the nonpositive imaginary axis, including zero, exactly the removed ray. Locally away from that ray, the Cauchy-Riemann equations or the local inverse of the exponential show that it is a holomorphic logarithm, with derivative and . The chosen interval fixes the additive ambiguity by integer multiples of .
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