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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Author: Autar Kaw

Autar Kaw (http://autarkaw.com) is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He has been at USF since 1987, the same year in which he received his Ph. D. in Engineering Mechanics from Clemson University. He is a recipient of the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year Award. With major funding from NSF, he is the principal and managing contributor in developing the multiple award-winning online open courseware for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods. The OpenCourseWare (nm.MathForCollege.com) annually receives 1,000,000+ page views, 1,000,000+ views of the YouTube audiovisual lectures, and 150,000+ page views at the NumericalMethodsGuy blog. His current research interests include engineering education research methods, adaptive learning, open courseware, massive open online courses, flipped classrooms, and learning strategies. He has written four textbooks and 80 refereed technical papers, and his opinion editorials have appeared in the St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune.

4 thoughts on “Computational Time to Find Determinant Using CoFactor Method”

  1. 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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