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Originally Posted by bsquared
That's my best pseudo-random matrix, yes. 929587995 is the determinant of the maximal circulant Latin square and re-finding it isn't valid for this challenge. What I meant was that when I started trying to generate matrices with structure (symmetric, etc.) then I tended to either find 929587995 or 0... i.e., not useful.
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Among the examples of structured matrices with determinant value 929587995, were there also some that did not have the very special structure of Latin squares? That would be a justification for my somewhat strange-seeming formulation of the challenge question.