Thread: Number of solutions for z^n = a

Hello,
How many solutions are there for an equation of the form:
z^n = a
where z is (the unknown) complex, n is natural, a is real
if there's a more general answer for this, (for a real n, or a complex a, for example), it'll be nice to know also
thanks you

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By the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, a polynomial of degree will have roots in the complex numbers.

, has roots (called the nth roots of unity). See Root of unity and Cyclotomic Polynomials on Wikipedia.