Determine and examine the nth roots of unity and their location on the unit circle.

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The nth roots of unity

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Slide n from 2 to 8 to plot the nth roots of unity evenly spaced on the unit circle, then scrub the step k to see each root as a rotate-by-2π/n from the previous.

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