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absolute value of a complex number

INTERFACE

#include <complex> 
double abs(complex<T> z );

DESCRIPTION

The abs function returns the absolute value of the complex number $z = a + {\rm i} b$ . The result is the real number denoted by $|z|$ and defined through:

$|z| = \sqrt{a^2+b^2}$

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Example 1

Problem

This program returns the absolute value of the complex number z=0.5+2i.

Workings

\code #include <stdio.h> #include <complex>

using std::complex;

int main() { complex<double> z; z=0.5+2i; printf("|0.5 + 2 i| = %.4lf
", abs(z)); return 0; } \endcode

Solution

Output:

|0.5 + 2 i| = 2.0616

The function is actually an alias for hypot(a, b) = $\sqrt{a^2 + b^2}$ .

abs

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