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Author: Marty Stepp

Suppose that a class Complex has been defined for storing complex numbers. In mathematics, complex numbers are those that can be written as (x + y i) where x and y are real numbers and i is the square root of -1. In other words, complex numbers have a real part (x) and an imaginary part (y). The class includes the following members:

NameDescription
private double x real part
private double y imaginary part
public Complex(double x, double y) constructs a complex number x + y * i
public double getReal() returns the real part of the number
public double getImaginary() returns the imaginary part of the number
public double abs() returns the absolute value of the number
public String toString() returns a String representation of the number
public Complex add(Complex other) returns the result of adding another complex number to this one
public Complex subtract(Complex other) returns the result of subtracting another complex number from this one

Your task is to modify the class to be Comparable by adding an appropriate compareTo method. Complex objects should be compared using absolute value with smaller absolute values considered "less" than numbers of higher absolute value.

The absolute value of a complex number is defined to be the square root of the sum of the squares of x and y.

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This is a partial class problem. Submit code that will become part of an existing Java class as described. You do not need to write the complete class, just the portion described in the problem.

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