This MathWorld site explains the technique for finding the determinant using minors. The site also suggests to use this method only on small matrices, giving a link to Guassian elimination for the alternative(larger matrices.) The site contains links to related topics.

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• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)