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Title: determinant of matrix
Post by: johnsample on July 25, 2013, 07:16:31 pm

[ 3 2 4]
  1 2 1      =P
[5 2  1]

that is a 3x3 matirx, which has det(P)= -24

does anyone what is significance of this determinant ?

Title: Re: determinant of matrix
Post by: TrueTears on July 25, 2013, 07:32:59 pm

Re: BORED already? Want to learn a bit of maths? :P

Title: Re: determinant of matrix
Post by: BubbleWrapMan on July 25, 2013, 08:43:33 pm

The significance of the determinant is well outside of the Further course.