The set of all square matrices of a given order n has a multiplicative
identity, that is, there is a unique n x n matrix In such that
AIn = InA = A,
for any n x n matrix A. We say that In is the identity matrix of order n,
or simply, the identity matrix. It can be shown that each entry on the main
diagonal of In is 1 and all other entries are 0:
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