41CL Quiz: Determinant of 30x30 anti-Identity matrix

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(05-20-2018 03:39 PM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  For an engineer, it doesn't matter so much that the determinant is exactly 0 or some 1e-12. Moreover, engineers usually deal with real, floating point numbers, rarely with pure integers.

J-F

Good point. If we can get to the moon using slide rules with about three significant figures, twelve sig figs should be enough to do just about anything!