Determinant
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The determinant of a square matrix is a scalar (a number) that indicates how that matrix behaves. It can be calculated from the numbers in the matrix.
The determinant of the matrix is written as
or
in a formula.[1][2] Sometimes, instead of
and
, one simply writes
and
.