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          |  |  A Fast Computation of the Characteristic Polynomial
 
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          |  |  This is a report on the Samuelson-Berkowitz-Abdeljaoued Algorithm (SBA), which is a very efficient computation of the characteristic polynomial in an arbtrary ring. We describe in detail Abdeljaoued'simproved version of the Berkowitz Algorithm, which was based on Samuelson's Formula. We offer step-by-step examples and a Mathematica package that implements SBA.
 
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