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The complex plane

A sandbox for a single complex number z. Drag the red dot (or edit the fields) and watch its Cartesian form z = x + iy and polar form z = r·e stay in sync. The buttons apply basic operations so you can see them geometrically.

A modern JavaScript + Canvas port of a 1998 Java applet by Terence Tao (originally PlaneApp.java / Plane.java).

Cartesian

Polar

× π

Operations