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Determinant of the adjoint

adjA=An1|\operatorname{adj}A| = |A|^{\,n-1}
AA
a square matrix
nn
the order of the matrix
A|A|
the determinant of A
adjA\operatorname{adj}A
the adjugate — transpose of the cofactor matrix

The determinant of the adjugate is the determinant of the matrix raised to the power one less than the order.

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