A square real matrix is invertible exactly when its determinant is nonzero, and then the determinant of the inverse is the reciprocal of the determinant.
In the setting of Routine Facts Used Without Citation: Arithmetic, Maps, Predicativity and Indices, let and let be a square real matrix, with the determinant , invertible matrices and their inverses , and reciprocals and quotients as in Commutative Rings, Fields and Ordered Fields: Standard Notation §fields.
is invertible if and only if .
If is invertible, then , where by clause invertible.
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