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Properties:: [[determinant as volume of parallelopiped with dimension of the ambient space]]
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Equivalences:: *[[Equivalences]]*
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> [!definition] Definition. ([[parallelopiped]])
> Let $a_{1},\dots,a_{k} \in \rrn$ be [[linearly independent]]. The $k$**-dimensional parallelopiped with edges** $a_{1},\dots,a_{k}$ is the set $\PP = \PP(a_{1}, \dots, a_{k}) = \left\{ \sum_{i=1}^{k} c_{i}a_{i}: 0 \leq c_{i} \leq 1 \right\}.$
(That is, all nonnegative [[linear combination|linear combinations]] of the $a