print " let us take a 3x3 matrix having det= -1 as"
A = matrix([[0,1,0],[1,0,0],[0,0,1]])
print A
print ""
print "determinant of A =",
x = det(A)
print x
x = det(0.5*A)
print "determinant of 0.5*A =",
print x
x = det(-A)
print "determinant of -A =",
print x
x = det(A*A)
print "determinant of A*A =",
print x
x =  det(A.inverse())
print "determinant of A^-1 =",
print x

Strang-4.2-2-U (last edited 2010-12-18 08:12:07 by ch.sandeep)