Find all complex numbers z such as z and 2/z have both real and imaginary part integers I am really

Aidyn Cox

Aidyn Cox

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2022-05-21

Find all complex numbers z such as z and 2/z have both real and imaginary part integers
I am really struggling to solve this one. I feel like I am missing the key part of the solution, so I would like to see how it's done.
Find all complex numbers z = x + y i such as z and 2 z 1 have both real and imaginary part integers
This is what I thought:
2 z 1 = 2 z = 2 x + y i = 2 x + y i x y i x y i = 2 x 2 y i x 2 + y 2 ..
In order to 2 z 1 have its imaginary part Z , we should equal 2y to 0
2 y = 0 y = 0
y i = 0 is an integer.
x must also be an integer. We simply assume x Z (no matter what value x has, as long as it's an integer, we are good).
We do the same for z and find out the same values y i = 0 and x Z .
Therefore, the set A = { ( x , y ) C | x Z  and  y = 0 } is the set of all complex numbers whose real and imaginary part are integers.

Answer & Explanation

Kaiden Porter

Kaiden Porter

Beginner2022-05-22Added 10 answers

Step 1
Starting where you left off we have
2 x 2 y i x 2 + y 2 = 2 x x 2 + y 2 2 y x 2 + y 2 i which implies that 2 x x 2 + y 2 is an integer and so by symmetry 2 y x 2 + y 2 will be an integer as well. Since the numerator grows linearly and the denominators grows quadratically there can only be finitely many such x and y and indeed we see that with y = 0 and x = 3 that x has grown too large so x , y 2.
Step 2
Now we also see that 2 divides the numerator, and so the denominator must be a multiple of 2 as well. This gives us that x = ± 1 or x = ± 2. From here we see that the only possible values are ± 1 ± i , ± 1 , ± i , ± 2 and ± 2 i.
Landyn Jimenez

Landyn Jimenez

Beginner2022-05-23Added 3 answers

Step 1
If | 2 z | < 1 then either R e ( 2 z ) and I m ( 2 z ) are either zero or non-integer.
But we are not interested in the non-integer cases.
| z | 2
Step 2
But if the components of z are integers, there are only a handful complex numbers to work with.

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