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Question 8 The study of Bohemian matrices is a current research topic. A family of Bohemian matrices is a set of matrices where the entries of the matrices are restricted to

a finite set of values, for example, {0,1} or {-1,0,1}. One is interested in the set of eigenvalues of such a family of matrices. In the Maple code below I've constructed all 2 by 2 matrices whose entries are 0 or 1. Since a 2 by 2 matrix has 4 entries and each entry can be a 0 or a 1, there are 24 = 16 such matrices.

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