Title: Calculate The Determinant Of A Matrix
Slug: calculate_the_determinant_of_a_matrix
Summary: How to calculate the determinant of a matrix in Python.
Date: 2017-09-02 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Vectors Matrices Arrays
Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



In [1]:

    
# Load library
import numpy as np

Create Matrix



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# Create matrix
matrix = np.array([[1, 2, 3],
                   [4, 5, 6],
                   [7, 8, 9]])

Calculate Determinant



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# Return determinant of matrix
np.linalg.det(matrix)









    Out[3]:





-9.5161973539299405e-16