Abstract
In this paper, a new method is presented for determinant calculation. This method is an innovative method, extracted
by the first author (Omid Rezaifar), for calculating the determinant either by hand or machine programming. This method
is based on a recursive procedure for which the logical proof was undertaken. The Reliability and speed of this method are
compared with other existing methods. The program of this algorithm was written with both Fortran90 and MATLAB.
2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.