31.5.3 What Division Really Does: Subtract the Angles
31.5 The Trigonometric Form and Geometric Meaning of Complex Numbers
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31.5.3 What Division Really Does: Subtract the Angles
Core idea
Picture this: division runs it backwards, dividing the lengths and subtracting the arguments; a complex number packages "rotate and scale" into a single multiply or divide
Module goal. We upgrade a complex number from a "coordinate address" to a "length plus direction," revealing that multiplication and division are really rotation and scaling — and laying groundwork for deeper material to come
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