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Let be the set of all matrices with every entry in such that , where is the identity matrix. The number of elements of is
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Answer: 4
If then is invertible, so and is a - matrix with . An invertible - matrix whose inverse is also a - matrix must be a permutation matrix, because the product of a row of with a column of must produce exact and entries with non-negative terms only, which forces each row and column to contain a single . So is the permutation matrix of a permutation of three objects with . Such permutations are the identity and the three transpositions, giving matrices. An exhaustive computer enumeration of all matrices gives the same count.
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