Absolute value of a complex number
Calculating the magnitude or absolute value for a complex number
In the article on the complex plane, it was described that every complex number z can be clearly assigned a vector. The length of the vector has a special name in the complex numbers. We call it the absolute value of the complex number.
The figure below shows the graphical representation of the complex number \(3 + 4i\).
The representation with vectors always results in a right triangle, which consists of the two catheters \(a\) and \(b\) and the hypotenuse \(z\). The absolute value of a complex number corresponds to the length of the vector.
The absolute value of the complex number \(z = a + bi\) is
Calculation of the absolute value of the complex number \(z = 3 - 4i\)
It also applies
Note that the absolute value at \(3 + 4i\) and \(3 – 4i\) is positive. The absolute value of complex and real numbers is always a positive value.
In most programming languages or math software, the name Abs is used for the function for determining the absolute value.
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