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

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(05-22-2018 11:17 PM)ijabbott Wrote:  I suppose just returning the determinant of the anti-identity matrix "by inspection" would be considered cheating? E.g the determinant of the NxN anti-identity matrix is N-1 for odd N, or 1-N for even N.

I would not consider that cheating, although I suggested so in post #13. BTW, there is a typo there: the RPL program returns -29, not 29 (I expected someone would notice it, but apparently no one did).