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- det

- so det
is a polynomial of degree n
in
. Coefficient of
is
, i.e., always
nonzero.
- On general principles, we will ALWAYS have n solutions

of det 
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu