Abstract: A familiar and natural decomposition of square matrices leads to the construction of a Pfaffian with the same value as the determinant of the square matrix.
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Miller, G. (2017) A Note on a Natural Correspondence of a Determinant and Pfaffian. Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, 7, 1-2. doi: 10.4236/ojdm.2016.71001.
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