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This is the symbol for the complex conjugate, representing the reflection of any complex number along the real axis. If \(Z\) is a complex number, then \(Z^{*}\) is it's conjugate.
This is the symbol for the complex conjugate, representing the reflection of any complex number along the real axis. If \(Z\) is a complex number, then \(Z^{*}\) is it's conjugate. If you have a complex number \(a + b\htmlId{tooltip-imag}{j}\), it can be found by flipping the sign of \(b\).
The symbol \(^{*}\) represents the reflection of any complex number along the real axis. If \(Z\) is a complex number, then \(Z^{*}\) is it's conjugate. If you have a complex number \(a + b\htmlId{tooltip-imag}{j}\), it can be found by flipping the sign of \(b\). A demonstration can be seen in the following figure:
![A graph demonstrating a vector and it's complex conjugate. It shows that the conjugate is a reflection of the initial vector along the real axis.](https://media-equationtology.s3.amazonaws.com/images/complex-conjugate.width-800.png)