st: Determinant of a matrix

["Edwin Earl" <edwin.earl@rogers.com>]

Hello,

Can someone help with calculating the determinant of a matrix? I tried 
. det(X) (where X is a square matrix)
and got
unrecognized command: det

I used mkmat to build up X.

Cheers,
Eddy.

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