About continuous functions and continuous continuations and their uniqueness

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How would you access the following problem:

(a) Show that for every $s \in \mathbb{Q}$ the function $$f: \mathbb{C}^* \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$$ $$ f(z) := \frac{\overline z}{\vert z \vert ^s}$$ is continuous

(b) for which $s \in \mathbb{Q}$ can we continuously continue $f$ in the origin? Is this continuation unique?

I'm pretty lost with this problem so im thankful for any kind of help and instruction thanks!

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(a) complex conjugation, absolute value, rational power, division are all continuous, hence so is $f$.

(b) Uniqueness is clear because $0$ is in the closure of $\mathbb C^\times$. For existence, consider cases $s>1$, $s=1$, $s<1$ separately.