2005 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 22

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A sequence of complex numbers $z_{0}, z_{1}, z_{2}, ...$ is defined by the rule

$z_{n+1} = \frac {iz_{n}}{\overline {z_{n}}},$

where $\overline {z_{n}}$ is the complex conjugate of $z_{n}$ and $i^{2}=-1$ . Suppose that $|z_{0}|=1$ and $z_{2005}=1$ . How many possible values are there for $z_{0}$ ?

$\textbf{(A)}\ 1 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 2005 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 2^{2005}$

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2005 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 22

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