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Jeff Cook
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All,
I understand by rules of complex math, that raising a real number to the power of a complex number, you simply drop the imaginary part; it is not affected at all. But what happens when you raise a real number to the power of an imaginary. For instance...
x = 2^3i - 2
Does x end up equal to zero or negative 2 in this example? Or something else altogether?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff
I understand by rules of complex math, that raising a real number to the power of a complex number, you simply drop the imaginary part; it is not affected at all. But what happens when you raise a real number to the power of an imaginary. For instance...
x = 2^3i - 2
Does x end up equal to zero or negative 2 in this example? Or something else altogether?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff