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document.write( "Consider a circle with the center at the point    on the complex plane.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Take the radius of this circle equal to  \r\n" );
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document.write( "and ask yourself, in how many points does this circle intersect the imaginary axis ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "In two points, obviously . . . \r\n" );
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document.write( "It gives you the \r\n" );
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document.write( "ANSWER.  There are two such real values of \"c\".\r\n" );
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