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== Gene Smith's Matrix Determinant Definition == | == Gene Smith's Matrix Determinant Definition == | ||
[[Gene Smith]] wrote the below presentation of Cangwu badness in terms of the characteristic polynomial of a matrix. The definition is again equivalent to the above, except it is equivalent to the *square* of the above Cangwu badness, and again involving equivalence only up to a scalar multiplication. | [[Gene Ward Smith]] wrote the below presentation of Cangwu badness in terms of the characteristic polynomial of a matrix. The definition is again equivalent to the above, except it is equivalent to the *square* of the above Cangwu badness, and again involving equivalence only up to a scalar multiplication. | ||
Note that the notation below is not, in general, the same as the notation above; Gene's original notation has been left as written, where the free parameter is called <math>x</math>. | Note that the notation below is not, in general, the same as the notation above; Gene's original notation has been left as written, where the free parameter is called <math>x</math>. | ||