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REAL*8 FUNCTION GETDET(A, N)

C A general purpose function written in FORTRAN77 to calculate determinant of a square matrix

C Passed parameters:
C A = the matrix
C N = dimension of the square matrix

C A modification of a code originally written by Ashwith J. Rego, available from

http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet1273.htm
C Modified by Syeilendra Pramuditya, available from http://wp.me/p61TQ-zb
C Last modified on January 13, 2011

IMPLICIT REAL*8 (A-H,O-Z)

REAL*8 ELEM(N,N),A(N,N)
REAL*8 M, TEMP
INTEGER I, J, K, L
LOGICAL DETEXISTS

DO I=1,N
DO J=1,N
ELEM(I,J)=A(I,J)
END DO
END DO

DETEXISTS = .TRUE.
L = 1
!CONVERT TO UPPER TRIANGULAR FORM
DO K = 1, N-1
IF (DABS(ELEM(K,K)).LE.1.0D-20) THEN
DETEXISTS = .FALSE.
DO I = K+1, N
IF (ELEM(I,K).NE.0.0) THEN

DO J = 1, N
TEMP = ELEM(I,J)
ELEM(I,J)= ELEM(K,J)
ELEM(K,J) = TEMP
END DO

DETEXISTS = .TRUE.
L=-L
EXIT

END IF

END DO
IF (DETEXISTS .EQV. .FALSE.) THEN
GETDET = 0
RETURN
END IF
END IF
DO J = K+1, N
M = ELEM(J,K)/ELEM(K,K)
DO I = K+1, N
ELEM(J,I) = ELEM(J,I) - M*ELEM(K,I)
END DO
END DO

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END DO

!CALCULATE DETERMINANT BY FINDING PRODUCT OF DIAGONAL ELEMENTS

GETDET = L
DO I = 1, N
GETDET = GETDET * ELEM(I,I)
END DO

END

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