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Definition of the adjoint

(adjA)ij=Cji(\operatorname{adj}A)_{ij} = C_{ji}
CjiC_{ji}
the cofactor of the entry in row j, column i

The adjugate is the transpose of the matrix of cofactors. For order two this simply swaps the diagonal entries and negates the other two.

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