Missing $i$ while evaluating $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{e^{iz}}{(z^2+2z+2)^2}$ using residue theorem

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Okay, first I'm a bit ashamed to ask because I already asked a question yesterday about a similar question (it's from far not the same integral though), but I'm missing an $i$ somewhere in the process, that's why I'm asking haha.

I'm asked to evaluate the following integral : $$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{\cos(z)}{(z^2+2z+2)^2}dz$$ which is the real part of

$$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{e^{iz}}{(z^2+2z+2)^2}dz$$ which is much simpler to evaluate obviously.

The poles are at $z=-1\pm i$. I evaluate the integral in the upper half circle, so only $-1+i$ is in our domain. When I calculate the derivative (pole of order 2), I get $$\frac{1}{1!}\lim_{z\to-1+i}\frac{d}{dz}(z-(-1+i))^2\frac{e^{iz}}{(z^2+2z+2)^2} =\lim_{z\to-1+i}(z-(-1+i))^2 \frac{ie^{iz}(z^2+2z+2)-e^{iz}2(2z+2)}{(z^2+2z+2)^3} = \lim_{z\to-1+i}(z-(-1+i))^2 \frac{-e^{iz}2(2z+2)}{(z^2+2z+2)^3}=\frac{-4ie^{i(-1+i)}}{8i^3}=\frac{e^{-1-i}}{2}$$ But an $i$ seems to be missing given that when I multiply by $2\pi i$, I get $\pi ie^{-1-i}$ while WolframAlpha gets $\pi e^{-1-i}$. A real (and not imaginary) result would also make more sense given that we then have to take the real part of it to get the original integral with $cos(x)$.

As yesterday, I checked my work several times and couldn't find the mistake, that's why I'm asking haha.

Thanks for your help !

Edit : I forgot to include $(z-(-1+i))^2$ in the process. This is actually a typo, not a mistake.

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I don't understand your method of computing that residue. Since$$\frac{e^{iz}}{(z^2+2z+2)^2}=\frac{e^{iz}}{(z+1+i)^2(z+1-i)^2}=\frac{\frac{e^{iz}}{(z+1+i)^2}}{(z+1-i)^2}$$and since the Taylor series of $\dfrac{e^{iz}}{(z+1+i)^2}$ about $-1+i$ is$$-\frac{e^{-1-i}}4-\frac{e^{-1-i}i}2(z+1-i)+\cdots,$$the residue that you're after is $-\dfrac{e^{-1-i}i}2$.

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$$\begin{align}\mathrm{Res}\left(\frac{e^{iz}}{(z^2+2z+1)^2},-1+i\right) &=\frac 1{1!}\lim_{z\to -1+i}\frac d{dz}\left(\color{red}{(z-(-1+i))^2}\frac{e^{iz}} {(z^2+2z+1)^2}\right)\\ &=\lim_{z\to -1+i}\frac d{dz}\left(\frac{e^{iz}}{(z+1+i)^2}\right)\\ &=\lim_{z\to -1+i}\frac{ie^{iz}(z+1+i)^2-2e^{iz}(z+1+i)}{(z+1+i)^4}\\&=\lim_{z\to -1+i}\frac{ie^{iz}(z+1+3i)}{(z+1+i)^3} \\&=\frac{-ie^{-1-i}}2\end{align}$$