TRUECALC
Functions

IMAGINARY

Imaginary part of a complex number

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When to use it

When should I use IMAGINARY?

Use IMAGINARY to extract the imaginary part (the coefficient of i) from a complex number text string, for use in further arithmetic or display.

Used in

engineering · science

Syntax

IMAGINARY(complex)

Examples

=IMAGINARY("3+5i") // => 5
=IMAGINARY("4j") // => 4
=IMAGINARY("45") // => 0

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