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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ia Paper 1 6A c ii Solution by
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Each entry of is, up to sign, the determinant of an minor whose entries are affine polynomials in . The Leibniz formula for determinants therefore makes each adjugate entry a polynomial in of degree at most .
For arbitrary , choose positive sequences for which and are nonsingular. The nonsingular identity from part (b) applies to their product:Every entry is a polynomial, hence continuous, in the matrix entries. Letting provesfor all square matrices.
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