Computational Time to Find Determinant Using CoFactor Method

The time it would take to find the determinant of a matrix using the cofactor method can be daunting.  A student may not realize this as they may be limited to finding determinants of matrices of order 4×4 or less by hand.  In this blog, we derive the formula for a typical amount of computational time it would take to find the determinant of a nxn matrix using the cofactor method.
 Computational time to find determinant

Computational time to find determinant

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  2. TANK YOU VERY MUCH I hope you will help me by doing such things from your blogs and websites since I’m an electrical engineering student I want such a simple methods to overcome mathematics and electronics problems and finally what you have done is a great full thing.this is your excellency keep it up!!
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