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Proportional rows make a determinant vanish

Ri=λRj    detA=0R_i = \lambda R_j \;\Rightarrow\; \det A = 0
λ\lambda
any scalar

If two rows or columns are equal, or one is a multiple of another, or the rows are otherwise linearly dependent, the determinant is zero.

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15
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years it has appeared
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