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Why cant you take the inverse of a matrix with det = 0?

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Because taking the inverse of a matrix A involves multiplying a matrix by the scalar value 1/det(A), and that value is undefined when det(A)=0

Mikheil Zhghenti answered Jul 13, 2018

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