Consider a 30 × 30 matrix, and suppose you had a computer that can perform a trillion multiplications a second. How long would it take such a computer to row reduce the matrix? How long would it take such a computer to find the determinant using cofactors? Show your work below.

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Consider a 30 × 30 matrix, and suppose you had a
computer that can perform a trillion multiplications a
second. How long would it take such a computer to row
reduce the matrix? How long would it take such a
computer to find the determinant using cofactors? Show
your work below.
Transcribed Image Text:Consider a 30 × 30 matrix, and suppose you had a computer that can perform a trillion multiplications a second. How long would it take such a computer to row reduce the matrix? How long would it take such a computer to find the determinant using cofactors? Show your work below.
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