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diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h
index de824c129..065000c12 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/PermutationMatrix.h
@@ -251,6 +251,35 @@ class PermutationBase : public EigenBase<Derived>
     template<typename Other> friend
     inline PlainPermutationType operator*(const Transpose<PermutationBase<Other> >& other, const PermutationBase& perm)
     { return PlainPermutationType(internal::PermPermProduct, other.eval(), perm); }
+    
+    /** \returns the determinant of the permutation matrix, which is either 1 or -1 depending on the parity of the permutation.
+      *
+      * This function is O(\c n) procedure allocating a buffer of \c n booleans.
+      */
+    Index determinant() const
+    {
+      Index res = 1;
+      Index n = size();
+      Matrix<bool,RowsAtCompileTime,1,0,MaxRowsAtCompileTime> mask(n);
+      mask.fill(false);
+      Index r = 0;
+      while(r < n)
+      {
+        // search for the next seed
+        while(r<n && mask[r]) r++;
+        if(r>=n)
+          break;
+        // we got one, let's follow it until we are back to the seed
+        Index k0 = r++;
+        mask.coeffRef(k0) = true;
+        for(Index k=indices().coeff(k0); k!=k0; k=indices().coeff(k))
+        {
+          mask.coeffRef(k) = true;
+          res = -res;
+        }
+      }
+      return res;
+    }
 
   protected: