Spectral radius of an invertible element in a Banach algebra.

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Let $A$ be a commutative Banach Algebra. Suppose $a\in A$ is invertible and $r(a)=\|a\|$, then is $r(a^{-1})=\|a^{-1}\|$, where $r$ denotes the spectral radius?

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