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Complex number z is an ordered pair of real numbers (a, b), where \(a,b\in \mathbb {R}\). The first number a is called the real part of the complex number \(z=(a,b)\) and is denoted by symbol \(\mathrm{Re}z\), while the second number of the pair b is called the imaginary part z and is denoted \(\mathrm{Im}z\) [23]. A complex number of the form (a, 0), where the imaginary part is zero, is identified with the real number a, i. e. \((a,0)\equiv a\). This allows considering the set of all real numbers \(\mathbb {R}\) as s subset of set of complex numbers \(\mathbb {C}\).
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Kurgalin, S., Borzunov, S. (2020). Complex Numbers. In: The Discrete Math Workbook. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42221-9_7
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