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#1 2019-10-14 19:29:02
- 666 bro
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Using limits with complex numbers
Hi guys,
Now I'm learning limits and derivatives
My question is how can I apply graphical limits in an argands plane?
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#2 2019-10-14 19:42:03
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Re: Using limits with complex numbers
hi 666 bro
Sorry, I'm not following exactly what you are asking. Please give more details.
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#3 2019-10-14 21:12:43
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Re: Using limits with complex numbers
In an argands plane how could we apply limits to them and how ''z'' could be the considered as a function of the graph?
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#4 2019-10-15 00:45:30
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Re: Using limits with complex numbers
hi 666 bro
Strictly speaking, the Argand diagram is not a graph. As it has 'x' and 'y' coordinates I can see why you might think it was. But it is just a way to represent complex numbers and there is lots of useful maths that stems from it.
A function such as y = 2x + 3 has an input (x) and an output (y). So you can show the effect of the function by plotting a graph.
A function like z = x^2 + y^2 cannot be represented in 2 dimensions, so, if you want a visual representation you have to try and represent the z axis, perpendicular to the other two … usually rising up from the x-y plane. Tricky to show clearly because we are only 3 dimensional beings (as far as I can tell )
So if that was the function of complex numbers of the form x + iy and z was limited to real values that's how you'd have to graph it. But z could also be complex in which case we run out of dimensions to show what is happening. Nevertheless there's a whole area of maths that does consider such functions.
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