Determinant vs Factors - What's the difference?
determinant | factors |
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something
(linear algebra) The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
(biology) A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
As nouns the difference between determinant and factors
is that determinant is a determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something while factors is plural of lang=en.As an adjective determinant
is serving to determine or limit; determinative.As a verb factors is
third-person singular of factor.determinant
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(wikipedia determinant) (en noun)See also
* permanent * singular *Mathworld article on determinants