{"id":12797,"date":"2015-10-26T06:59:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=12797"},"modified":"2015-10-26T06:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T06:59:55","slug":"spreadsheets-libreoffice-calc-the-determinant-of-a-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-libreoffice-calc-the-determinant-of-a-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets:  LibreOffice Calc:  the determinant of a matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares a feature of LibreOffice Calc that&#8217;s very convenient.<\/h1>\n<p>I don&#8217;t evaluate determinants very often, but in the past I&#8217;ve done it a few times.  I find it&#8217;s a process that requires care.<\/p>\n<p>LibreOffice Calc will evaluate the determinant for you, as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s imagine you insert the matrix entries into cells a1 through c3.  In a cell that&#8217;s detached (I use d5), type in<\/p>\n<p><span style=font-family:monospace>=MDETERM(a1:c3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you&#8217;re rewarded with the determinant of the matrix that spans a1 to c3.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sharing more hints about LibreOffice Calc in future posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares a feature of LibreOffice Calc that&#8217;s very convenient. I don&#8217;t evaluate determinants very often, but in the past I&#8217;ve done it a few times. I find it&#8217;s a process that requires care. LibreOffice Calc will evaluate the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-libreoffice-calc-the-determinant-of-a-matrix\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets:  LibreOffice Calc:  the determinant of a matrix<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,3,7,10],"tags":[303,1074],"class_list":["post-12797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use","category-math","category-physics","category-sciences","tag-determinant","tag-libreoffice-calc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12797"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12805,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}