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Calculating the determinant of a matrix in Python

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To calculate the determinant of a matrix in Python, use NumPy's linalg.det(~) method.

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Consider the following matrix:

import numpy as np
x = np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
x
array([[1, 2],
[3, 4]])

To calculate the determinant of matrix x:

int(np.linalg.det(x))
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