Complex Functions - Complex Analysis

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Question

What does the sum below equal?

Another way of asking this question is what is the sum of the roots of unity.

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Answer

As messy as it looks, this is just a geometric series.

we will use the partial sum formula for the geometric series.

the red part is the only part that matters....the cancel out leaving....

and...

thus we have...

which gives the answer of zero.

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