Functions applied to complex numbers

Many of the keyboard-based functions and MTH menu functions defined in Chapter 3 for real numbers (e.g., SQ, ,LN, ex, etc.), can be applied to complex numbers. The result is another complex number, as illustrated in the following examples. [Note: not all lines will be visible in the screen of your calculator when finishing with the exercises in the following figures].

Note: When using trigonometric functions and their inverses with complex numbers the arguments are no longer angles. Therefore, the angular measure selected for the calculator has no bearing in the calculation of these functions with complex arguments.

Function DROITE: equation of a straight line

Function DROITE takes as argument two complex numbers, say, x1+iy1 and x2+iy2, and returns the equation of the straight line, say, y = a+bx, that contains the points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2). For example, the line between points A(5,-3) and B(6,2) can be found as follows (example in Algebraic mode):

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