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INV matrix function

Description

INV(A) returns the inverse matrix for the square matrix A.

The inverse A−1 of a square matrix A is the unique matrix such that:

$$ A^{-1}A = I = AA^{-1} $$

That is, the inverse of A is the matrix A−1 that you have to multiply A by in order to obtain the identity matrix I.

Note that when the argument of the INV function is a real number x, then INV(x) returns x−1 or 1/x, so that analogously:

$$ x^{-1}x = 1 $$

To invert all elements of a matrix A, use the function POWER(A,-1).

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