The formula for the rational function
The answers can be obtained from:
(z+5)(z-6)(z-1-i)^4
r(z) = -------------------------
(z-2-3i)^3 (z-3)(z+1-3i)
Check that you can see the effect of each term.
- The zero at 6 has order 1.
Note that the colors cycle through
red yellow green blue purple in counterclockwise order (like the
standard plane).
- The zero at 1+i has order 4, since the colors cycle
through 4 times as you pass counterclockwise around the zero.
- The pole at 2+3i has order 3 because the colors cycle 3 times in the
opposite order.
- Near infinity, the colors cycle once in the same order as the
standard plane, so that means that r(z) behaves like Cz, for some
constant C, near infinity. Thus r(1/z) behaves like C/z for z near zero and
hence r has a pole of order 1 at infinity.