Can the distance ($r$) or angle ($θ$) of the Polar coordinates contain Complex numbers ($a+bi$)?

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  1. Is it possible that distance ($r$) or angle ($θ$) contains Imaginary or Complex number?
  2. If the answer is yes, how can I convert a number like that (Polar with complex argument) to Rectangular number?
    For example: $(r,θ) = (5+2i, 3+4i)$ how to convert to $x+yi$ ?

    Thank you.
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Hint

Substitute $i=e^\frac{i\pi}{2}$ and use the exponentiation rules for $r$, and the hyperbolic functions for the angle, along with some of the trignometric identities. This will give you two polar coordinates which then need to be added together and simplified.

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First of all, if the distance of some complex number (x+iy) from the origin is complex, then it follows that either one of x or y is non-real, otherwise r cannot be complex. Thus your complex number cannot be constructed.

Secondly, complex angles do exist, but the notion of a complex argument of a complex number doesn't seem quite right, not in 2D Argand plane at least.