document exact BigInt determinants #53579
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New users are commonly surprised that determinants of integer matrices give an approximate floating-point answer (#40128), and are unaware that an exact algorithm is implemented for
BigInt
matrices (#40868). This PR comments on both of these facts in thedet
documentation.(At some point, we may want to mark
LinearAlgebra.det_bareiss
aspublic
, and document it, but that can be done in a future PR.)