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It seems to me you could define:

t = i*z 

t =

     9.020383145678592e+002 +2.225167162095353e+003i

Then use 

e^z = e^(a+bi) = e^a [cos(b) + i*sin(b)] = (e^(a/2)) * (e^(a/2))*[cos(b) + i*sin(b)] 

Now we can get numbers for each term using Matlab and go from there manually adding exponents.  Someone else probably knows a scaling trick that is much better.