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Argument (complex analysis)
represents the complex number lying on a plane. For each point on the plane, is the function which returns the angle \varphi . In mathematics (particularly in complex analysis), the argument of a complex number , denoted , is the angle between the positive real axis and the line joining the origin and , represented as a point in the complex plane, shown as \varphi in Figure 1. By convention the positive real axis is drawn pointing rightward, the positive imaginary axis is drawn pointing upward, and complex numbers with positive real part are considered to have an anticlockwise argument with positive sign. When any real-valued angle is considered, the argument is a multivalued function operating on the nonzero complex numbers. The principal value of this function is single-valued, typically chosen to be the unique value of the argument that lies within the interval . In this article the multi-valued function will be denoted and its principal value will be denoted , but in some sources the capitalization of these symbols is exchanged.
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represents the complex number lying on a plane. For each point on the plane, is the function which returns the angle \varphi . In mathematics (particularly in complex analysis), the argument of a complex number , denoted , is the angle between the positive real axis and the line joining the origin and , represented as a point in the complex plane, shown as \varphi in Figure 1. By convention the positive real axis is drawn pointing rightward, the positive imaginary axis is drawn pointing upward, and complex numbers with positive real part are considered to have an anticlockwise argument with positive sign. When any real-valued angle is considered, the argument is a multivalued function operating on the nonzero complex numbers. The principal value of this function is single-valued, typically chosen to be the unique value of the argument that lies within the interval . In this article the multi-valued function will be denoted and its principal value will be denoted , but in some sources the capitalization of these symbols is exchanged.
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