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| i =√-1 , so i^2 = -1 , and so on (up to i^4, then it repeats) |
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| a number a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the imaginary unit |
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| a complex number a+bi where b does not = 0 |
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| two complex numbers of the form a+bi and a-bi |
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| a coordinate plane in which each point (a,b) represents a complex number a+bi. The horizontal axis is the real axis and the vertical axis is the imaginary axis. |
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| absolute value of a complex number |
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| if z = a+bi, then the absolute value of z, denoted as |z|, is a nonnegative real number defined as |z| =√(a^2+b^2) |
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