{"id":18580,"date":"2016-11-01T17:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T17:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=18580"},"modified":"2016-11-01T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T17:07:34","slug":"spreadsheets-finding-the-determinant-of-a-matrix-using-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-finding-the-determinant-of-a-matrix-using-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets:  finding the determinant of a matrix using Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor tells how to have Excel evaluate a determinant for you.<\/h1>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\nKey in your matrix values.  Let&#8217;s imagine you use the range a1:d4.<\/li>\n<li>\nSelect a cell away from the range, let&#8217;s say f6.  Key in <span style=\"font-family:sans-serif;font-size:110%\">=mdeterm(a1:d4)<\/span> then press Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>HTH:)<\/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 tells how to have Excel evaluate a determinant for you. Here&#8217;s how: Key in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-finding-the-determinant-of-a-matrix-using-excel\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets:  finding the determinant of a matrix using Excel<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1583,302,3,2004,1065],"tags":[2003],"class_list":["post-18580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","category-linear-algebra","category-math","category-matrix-algebra","category-spreadsheets","tag-mdeterm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580","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=18580"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18593,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580\/revisions\/18593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}