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Determinants & Inverses · Medium problem

A quality-control rule accepts three sensor calibration vectors, forming the rows of M=(123014210)M=\begin{pmatrix}1&2&3\\0&1&4\\2&1&0\end{pmatrix}, as "independent enough" only if ∣det⁡M∣|\det M| is at least 22. By how much does ∣det⁡M∣|\det M| exceed this threshold?