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Does the hyperdeterminant calculate a quantity akin to the volume of a parallelepiped?

If $M$ is an $n \times n$ matrix, $|\det(M)|$ is the volume of the $n$-dimensional parallelepiped spanned by the column vectors of $M$.                  ...
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