several formulae for determinants need the base case, and it is always 1 for 0x0 matrix. E.g. think of decomposing w.r.t. a row, or expressing the determinant of the matrix times the determinant of the submatrix obtained by removing 1st and last rows and columns in terms of certain minors.
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