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vmatrixEnvironment

Used for determinant-style or absolute-value-style vertical-bar matrices

\begin{vmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{vmatrix}
Topic
Matrices
Available in
ams
Allowed mode
math
Body mode
math
Frequency
0.02% of corpus formulasrank 24 of 31
Commonality
medium
Tags
matrix, nestable
Renderer support
PackageMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
amsMathJax: FullKaTeX: FullXeTeX: Full
About the test scope

Syntax#

\begin{vmatrix}…math body\end{vmatrix}

Takes no arguments. Reading argspecs

In TeXForm#

TeXForm reads the environment body in math mode.

Rewrite the fenced vmatrix environment to explicit vertical bars around a core matrix environment.

\begin{vmatrix} #1 \end{vmatrix} \left|\begin{matrix} #1 \end{matrix}\right|

See also#

Test cases#

ams
InputCaseMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
\begin{vmatrix} a & b \\\\ c & d \end{vmatrix}Positive · baselinePassPassPass
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