Geometry and complex numbers.

Exercise: Let tex2html_wrap_inline7 and tex2html_wrap_inline9 be distinct complex numbers. Describe the set of points

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Solution:

First consider the case when tex2html_wrap_inline13 . Then the set in question is

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Writing tex2html_wrap_inline17 for some r and tex2html_wrap_inline21 we see that the above set is simply the line segment from the origin to tex2html_wrap_inline9 .

Now we can write

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and we see that our set is the line segment from the origin to tex2html_wrap_inline27 translated by tex2html_wrap_inline7 . Checking the endpoints, we see that this is the line segment joining tex2html_wrap_inline7 to tex2html_wrap_inline9 .

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