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Documentation:

https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/Macaulay2/doc/Macaulay2-1.13/share/doc/Macaulay2/Macaulay2Doc/html/toc.html

(This is the table of contents of the documentation. A lot of functions have self-evident names, so often it is sufficient to just go here and search for your best guess of the function name. )

Exercise: Construct a random 3x3 matrix with entries in Q and check its rank.

Reference book: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/Macaulay2/Book/ComputationsBook/book/book.pdf

Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/macaulay2

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