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Chapter 4 Determinant

Determinant of a square matrix is like the odometer(里程表) of a car, which tells many useful information of the matrix. The significant difference between matrices is that if the determinant is zero.
The computation of determinant is subtle for the matrix of size \(\geq 4\text{.}\)
The purposes of this chapter are listed below.
  1. know the function in SageMath for computing the determinant.
  2. To master the recursive method in programming.