Volume 03, issue 01, pages 015-022, May 2024 E-ISSN: 2830-6791 Pattimura International Journal of Mathematics (PIJMath) RESEARCH ARTICLE ◙ OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.30598/pijmathvol3iss1pp15-22 15 A Generalization of Chio’s Condensation Method Any Muanalifah 1* , Yuli Sagita 2 , Nurwan 3 , Aini Fitriyah 4 , Rosalio Artes Jr 5 1,2,4 Department of Mathematics, UIN Walisongo, Indonesia. Campus 1 of UIN Walisongo, Walisongo Street No 3-5 Semarang 50185, Central Java, Indonesia 3 Department of Mathematics, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia. Campus 4 of Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo 96128, Indonesia 5 Mindanao State University - Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography. MSU Main Campus, Marawi City, 9700 Lanao del Sur, Philippines Corresponding author’s e-mail: ¹* any.muanalifah@walisongo.ac.id ABSTRACT 1 Article History Chio condensation method is a method to compute the determinant of an × matrix A where   ≠ by reducing the order of the matrix to an ( − ) × ( − )matrix. In this paper, we will generalize the condition where   can be equal to zero. To compute the determinant, we can choose any element of matrix A that is not equal to zero as a pivot element. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Editor of PIJMath, Pattimura University Received: 21 st February 2024 Revised: April 12 th , 2024 Accepted: April 28 th , 2024 Published: May 1 st , 2024 Keywords Determinant; Chio’s Condensation Method; Pivot Element; 1 How to cite this article: A. Muanalifah, Y. Sagita, Nurwan, A. Fitriyah, and R. Artes Jr, “A GENERALIZATION OF CHIO’S CONDESATION METHOD”, Pattimura Int. J. Math. (PIJMATH)., vol. 03, iss. 01, pp. 015-022, May 2024. © 2024 by the Author(s) e-mail: pijmath.journal@mail.unpatti.ac.id Homepagehttps://ojs3.unpatti.ac.id/index.php/pijmath